15 ([return])
[ Smith, Works (Arber's ed.), 783; Bradford, Plimoth Plantation, 56-58.]
16 ([return])
[ Bradford, Plimoth Plantation, 90-110; Eggleston, Beginners of a Nation, 184, note 4.]
17 ([return])
[ Morton, New England's Memorial, 56.]
CHAPTER X
DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PLYMOUTH
(1621-1643)
During the winter of 1620-1621 the emigrants suffered greatly from scurvy and exposure. More than half the company perished, and the seamen on the Mayflower suffered as much.[1 ] With the appearance of spring the mortality ceased, and a friendly intercourse with the natives began. These Indians were the Pokanokets, whose number had been very much thinned by the pestilence. After the first hostilities directed against the exploring parties they avoided the whites, and held a meeting in a dark and dismal swamp, where the medicine-men for three days together tried vainly to subject the new-comers to the spell of their conjurations.