On sailed the three ships--little ships--sailing-ships with a long way to go.
"The twelfth day of February at night we saw a blazing starre and presently
a storme . . . . The three and twentieth day [of March] we fell with the
Iland of Mattanenio in the West Indies. The foure and twentieth day we
anchored at Dominico, within fourteene degrees of the Line, a very faire
Iland, full of sweet and good smells, inhabited by many Savage Indians ....
The six and twentieth day we had sight of Marigalanta, and the next day wee
sailed with a slacke sail alongst the Ile of Guadalupa . . . . We sailed by
many Ilands, as Mounserot and an Iland called Saint Christopher, both
uninhabited; about two a clocke in the afternoone wee anchored at the Ile
of Mevis. There the Captaine landed all his men . . . . We incamped
ourselves on this Ile six days . . . . The tenth day [April] we set saile
and disimboged out of the West Indies and bare our course Northerly ....
The six and twentieth day of Aprill, about foure a clocke in the morning,
wee descried the Land of Virginia."*
* Percy's "Discourse in Purchas, His Pilgrims," vol. IV, p. 1684.
Also given in Brown's "Genesis of the United States", vol. I, p. 152.
During the long months of this voyage, cramped in the three ships, these
men, most of them young and of the hot-blooded, physically adventurous
sort, had time to develop strong likings and dislikings. The hundred and
twenty split into opposed camps. The several groups nursed all manner of
jealousies.
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