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CAPE COD. 
History in my hands, I should not be able to tell what 
was what. 
Earlier than the date Postel refers to, at any rate, 
Cape Cod lay in utter darkness to the civilized world, 
though even then the sun rose from eastward out of the 
sea every day, and, rolling over the Cape, went down 
westward into the Bay. It was even then Cape and 
Bay, — ay, the Cape of Codjish^ and the Bay of the 
Massachusetts, perchance. 
Quite recently, on the 11th of November, 1620, old 
style, as is well known, the Pilgrims in the Mayflower 
came to anchor in Cape Cod Harbor. They had loosed 
from Plymouth, England, the 6th of September, and, in 
the words of “ Mourt’s Relation,” after many difficul¬ 
ties in boisterous storms, at length, by God’s providence, 
upon the 9th of November, we espied land, which we 
deemed to be Cape Cod, and so afterward it proved. 
Upon the 11th of November we came to anchor in the 
bay, which is a good harbor and pleasant bay, circled 
round except in the entrance, which is about four miles 
over from land to land, compassed about to the very sea 
with oaks, pines, juniper, sassafras, and other sweet 
wood. It is a harbor wherein a thousand sail of ships 
may safely ride. There we relieved ourselves with 
wood and water, and refreshed our people, while our 
shallop was fitted to coast the bay, to ^search for an habi¬ 
tation.” There we put up at Fuller’s Hotel, passing by 
the Pilgrim House as too high for us (we learned after¬ 
ward that we need not have been so particular), and we 
refreshed ourselves with hashed fish and beans, beside 
taking in a supply of liquids (which were not intox¬ 
icating), while our legs were refitted to coast the back¬ 
side. Further say the Pilgrims: ^^We could not come 
