They could penetrate the future no farther than to confide in the justice of God and the power of truth. The latter they knew must ultimately prevail,

The harbor in which the Mayflower now lay is worthy of a passing glance."The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth, Massachussets, featuring a series of excerpts

The particulars of this voyage, more memorable by far than the famed expedition of the Argonauts, and paralleled, if at all, only by the voyage of

. . . the Speedwell, of sixty tons -- miserable misnomer -- was purchased in Holland for the use of the emigrants; and the Mayflower, of a hundred

Their greatest hardship was the compact with the merchants. The Pilgrims were poor and their funds were limited.The Pilgrims Settle Plymouth,

All that could be obtained from the King after the most diligent "sounding" was a verbal promise that "he would connive at them and not molest them,