OF BEGINNINGS 



other garden herbs, with a great store of goodly oaks 

 and walnut-trees, and chestnut-trees, ewe-trees and 

 trees of sweetwood in great abundance." (This from 

 Juet's Journal.) 



Faint and scarce discernible in many places is the 

 fourth and last path — the one worn by Puritan feet 

 from the landing place at Long Point, where the first 

 group of men from the Mayflower, well armed, were 

 set ashore to explore the country, immediately after 

 the signing of the Compact on the eleventh of Novem- 

 ber, 1620. From this excursion they returned at 

 night "with a boat-load of juniper which delighted 

 them with its fragrance." 



Is not this a delightful touch — that it should be 

 with these stern, pleasure repudiating, unyielding men 

 even as it was with Hudson's Dutch sailors, and the 

 Cavaliers who came with Barlow? The sweet smells 

 of the land, filling their nostrils, entranced them — 

 and the first thing which they brought off to their ship 

 was as much of the delicious spicy boughs as their boat 

 would hold! Wherever men came to set foot on the 

 shores of the new world, it is notable that fragrance 

 met them; and over all the beauties and wonders to 

 which the earliest writers bear witness, each in his 

 own way, sweet odors drift, of flowers and fragrant 

 gums and spices. 



All this was a new world, however, only to these 



