"When they were several miles from the ship they landed and made ready to spend the night out of doors. They built a wall of logs. They said:
"'We can sleep behind this wall. Then if the Indians should creep upon us, we can defend ourselves.'
"They had no trouble during the night, but in the morning there was a terrible sound. It was not like anything they had ever heard before. It was the warwhoop of the Indians.
"'The guns!' They were in the boat where the men had just carried them. There was a quick rush to the shore, while arrows came whizzing about their heads. Then 'Bang! bang!' went the guns, and the frightened Indians ran back into the woods.
"The Indians thought the white men carried thunder and lightning in the iron tubes. Although brave, they could not stand against such fearful weapons.
"The explorers hastened away. After a while they came into a small harbor. The land along the shore had been cleared of woods. Brooks flowed through it into the sea.
"'This would be a good place for our people to live,' Miles Standish thought. The others thought so too.
"John Smith had visited this very place before and had marked it on his map. As soon as the men came back, the ship set sail and brought the pilgrims to the chosen spot.
"'God's will has led us here,' thought the good people. 'It must be the best place for our new home.'
"One hundred persons had left England, but one hundred and two landed on Plymouth Rock. How was that?"