The Pilgrims ship sails again in favorable conditions, but unfortunately many of the passengers

get seasickness. In the beginning of this chapter is related a scene where God makes His
presence felt.
A young man was giving everyone else aboard the ship a tough time. People struggled with seasickness and other ailments during their long journey and everyone just got sick of him. Well, he
grew a disease of his own and died, thus he had to be thrown overboard and the people trusted
that the Lord allowed that to happen on purpose.
After a while the cross winds and strong storms caused a huge damage to the boat and the
group had to make a decision because their lives were in danger.
They had a meeting with the chief of the company, the master, and the officers. They talked it out
and decided together that they would rather keep going than giving up their mission and repaired
the boat .
They took this boat up to the coast, saw Cape Cod and rode up the Hudson River looking for a
good place to dock. Then they move to Cape Harbor, but here they are struck by what they
perceive as a desolate wilderness, utterly hostile and without comforts. Bradford emphasizes the
travails they endured in sailing to this new land, and in Chapter Nine he wants the reader to
understand that things didn't get any better.
This chapter also includes remarks about the people they encountered, who Bradford views as
basically hostile: ...these savage barbarians, when they met with them...were readier to fill their
sides full with arrows than otherwise... (Bradford 1981: 205)
Indians were viewed, then, as a hostile force of nature, ready to destroy the Pilgrims at any
moment. The point of this chapter, as with A History of Plymouth Plantation as a whole, was to
emphasize the struggles, hardships, and privations suffered by the Pilgrims in an attempt to show
that the Pilgrims had been chosen for success by divine Providence. Faced with these hardships,
Bradford ends the chapter by asking rhetorically, "what could now sustain them but the Spirit of
God and his grace!" ( Bradford 1981 : 205)

On November 11, 1620 the pilgrims, aboard the Mayflower ship, dropped anchor at Cape Cod.
They wanted to explore the new land with a shallop they brought with them from England, but it

suffered damages during the voyage and needed mending. In this situation, while the shallop was
being repaired, 16 well armed men, leaded by Captain Standish, were allowed to seek what
seemed to be a nearby river. On the 15th of November they had already marched 1 mile along
the seaside and encountered some native inhabitants. The Indians ran towards the woods as soon
as they saw the pilgrims, but the English followed them to see where they were going or if they
could speak to them. . They continued their search found, over a pond, what seemed to be a
former Indian establishment, the remains of a house, near this place they found the river they
were seeking. When the shallop was ready, they continued to explore the new land and found
two more houses, but no actual Indians. On the 6th of December, facing harsh weather, they
decided to go to the deep bay of Cape Cod, where they saw 10 or 12 Indians. They set ashore
near them and as night fell, they had to barricade themselves in case of an attack.
But one day , unexpectedly, the Indians attacked the Pilgrims with arrows. Hardly they succeded
to provide their weapons, and eventually they defeated them. After the battle, the Pilgrims
thanked God for His helping,
Afterwards, they departed, but due to the strong wind and the great waves , their ship was
damaged but with Gods help, they survived and found a island where they could rest and fix
their pieces .
In the end, they settle on this island because found it appropriate for their needs, and there they
erect the first house where they would dwell and deposit their goods.