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civilcst, but also the oncly inhabitants oi' that comfortlcsse 

 Countrey ; the lamentable ends and miscarriage of which 

 men, had bcene enough indeed to have daunted the spirits 

 of the most noble resolution. 



All these fearefvdl examples presenting themselves before 

 our eyes, at this place of Bottle Cove aforesaid, made us, 

 like amazed men, to stand looking one upon another, all of 

 us, as it were, beholding in the present, the future calamities 

 both of himselfe and of his fellowes. And thus, like men 

 already metamorphosed into the ycc of the Country, and 

 already past both our sense and reason, stood wee with the 

 eyes of pittie beholding one another. 



Nor was it other mens examples and miscarriages and 

 teares alone that made us amazed, but it was the considera- 

 tion of our want of all necessary provision for the life of man, 

 that already strooke \is to the heart ; For we were not only 

 unprovided, both of clothes to keepe us warme and of foode 

 to prevent the wrath of cruell famine, but vtterly destitute 

 also wee were of a sufficient house wherein to shrowd and 

 shelter our selves from the chilling cold. Thus for a space 

 standing all mute and silent, weighing with our selves the 

 miserie wee were already fallen into, and knowing delay in 

 these extremities to be the mother of all dangers, we began 

 to conceive hope even out of the depth of despaire. Eowsing 

 up our benummed senses therefore, wee now lay our heads 

 and counsels together, to bethinke our selves of the likeliest 

 course for our preservation in that place ; seeing that all 

 hopes of gaining our passage into England were then quite 

 frustrate. Shaking oiF therefore all childish and effeminate 

 fearcs, it pleased God to give us hearts like men, to arme 

 our selves with a resolution to doe our best for the resisting 

 of that monster of Desperation. An agreement thereupon by 

 a generall consent of the whole Companie we then entered 

 into, to take the opportunitic of the next faire weather and 



