BRADFORD'S HISTORY
""OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION.""
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.
""OF PLIMOTH PLANTATION.""
FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT.
So they made them a barricado (as usually they did every
night) with loggs, staks, & thike pine bowes, ye height
of a man, leaving it open to leeward, partly to shelter
them from ye could & wind (making their fire in ye
midle, & lying round aboute it), and partly to defend
them from any sudden assaults of ye savags, if they
should surround them.
night) with loggs, staks, & thike pine bowes, ye height
of a man, leaving it open to leeward, partly to shelter
them from ye could & wind (making their fire in ye
midle, & lying round aboute it), and partly to defend
them from any sudden assaults of ye savags, if they
should surround them.
So being very weary, they betooke them to rest Aboute midnight,
heard a hideous & great crie, and their sentinell caled,
Arme, arme""; so they bestired them & stood to their
armes, & shote of a cupple of moskets, and then the
noys seased. They concluded it was a companie of
wolves, or such like willd beasts; for one of ye sea
men tould them he had often heard shuch a noyse in
New-found land.
Arme, arme""; so they bestired them & stood to their
armes, & shote of a cupple of moskets, and then the
noys seased. They concluded it was a companie of
wolves, or such like willd beasts; for one of ye sea
men tould them he had often heard shuch a noyse in
New-found land.
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