The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-11-13
The Globes J4ome study Course
Colonial Period Of american Literature.
BY LORENZO SEARS, LIT. D.

Payments as they best could, balancing
| peace and their spiritual comfort above
| any other riches whatsoever. And at
| length they came to raise q competent
| and comfortable living, but with hard
| and continual labor
| Later follows an account of the de-
parture from Holland, of delays and re-
| verses in getting away from England of
| a tempestuous voyage and finally OF the
| arrival at Cape Cod.
And for the reason that it was winter
| and they that know the winters of that
country know them to be sharp and vio-
| lent and subject to cruel and fierce
| storms, dangerous to travel to known
| places, much more to search an I'M
| known coast.
Besides, what could they see but a
| hideous and desolate wilderness, full of
| wild beasts and wild men? And what
multitudes there might be of them they
knew not. If they looked behind
| them there was the mighty ocean which
they had passed and was now as main
bar or gulf to separate them from all the
civil parts of the world
To use the authors words, sttSundry
other things I pass over as being tedious
and not pertinent" Others there are full
of the interest which belongs to the his
tory that is written as fast as it is made,
Poi tidy mig Will SIdpHlC Tie
going out and the coming in of a people.
The departure of the Mayflower on the
return voyage; the arrival of the For
tune: the treaty with Massasoit the trou-
Bile with Lyford and Oldome, the cast
away crew which brought both profit
and disturbance; the dishonesty of agents
and factors; the capture of Sir Christie
pher Gardener; the arrival of Roger Will
liams; the settlement on the Connecticut
dlesome French; a hurricane on the
coast; the fight with the Pequots and
finally the breaking out of sundry no.
torious SINS and the punishment accord
ing to Mosaic law-Such incidents and
events are faithfully and impart1ally set
down in a charitable temper and with as
true a sense of proportionate Importance
as a chronicler of a little neighborhood
can be expected to have. Most remarka-
bic for that time is an unusual freedom
from imputing the disasters of enemies
to the judgment of heaven, and not too
much assuming that the settlers at
Plymouth were the chosen people of the
new dispensation In short, Bradford
represents the hard, common sense which
the first colonists brought with them, and
his plain annals, year after year, are the
unbiased record of a humble but sturdy
people, conscious of high mission which
they SlrQed themselves TO fullll.
Edward WinsloW was the associate of
Bradford, keeping what may be called
daybook as compared with Bradford's
ponderous yearbook. This Journal be-
gins with the departure from England,
Sept. 6, 1920 summarizing the two
months voyage in single line, and TAX
ing up the continuous record of the day
they sighted land, Nov. 8. For forty days
there is the account of attempts to find
a suitable place in which TO settle, the
little shallop lowering and fitting about
like a distrustful bird. On board the
Mayfower' there were signs of faction
and along shore of Indians. So they
made the famous compact and signed it.
and the same day "set ashore fifteen or
sixteen men well armed to see what the
land was and what the Inhabitants they
could meet with The narrative of these
first amphibious days reads like the story
of a winter picnic on a desolate coast.
There is no woeful lamentation over the
necessity of wading ashore-only the SIM
pie observation that colds were caught
which were the death of many during
the winter The chief regret is for lack
of fshhooks and harpoons, but this is
counter-balanced by delight at finding
corn and beans hidden by the natives,