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was south, the morning misty, but towards 

 noon warm and fair weather. The birds 

 sang in the woods most pleasantly. At 

 one of the clock it thundered, which was 

 the first we heard in that country. March 

 19, 20, Monday and Tuesday proved fair 

 days. We digged our grounds and sowed 

 our garden seeds. ' ' l They sowed six acres 

 of barley and pease, and set twenty acres 

 of corn, making use of the ten bushels 

 which they had brought from the Indian 

 subterranean storehouses. In this work, 

 much assistance was rendered them by 

 Squanto, a faithful Indian, who taught 

 them how to plant, manure with fish, and 

 hill it. "Our corn did prove well: and 

 God be praised, we had a good increase 

 of Indian corn, and our barley indifferent 

 good, but our pease not worth the gath- 

 ering, for we feared they were too late 

 sown. They came up very well, and 

 blossomed : but the sun parched them in 

 the blossom." 2 The sudden death of 

 Governor Carver was closely connected 



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