But here I cannot but stay and make a pause, and stand half amazed at this poor people’s present
condition; and so I think will the reader, too, when he well considers the same. Being thus passed
the vast ocean, and a sea of troubles before in their preparation (as may be remembered by that
which went before), they had now no friends to welcome them nor inns to entertain or refresh
their weather beaten bodies; no houses or much less town to repair to, to seek for help. It is
recorded in Scripture as a mercy to the Apostle and his shipwrecked company, that the
barbarians showed them no small kindness in refreshing them, but these savage barbarians, when
they met with them (as after will appear) were readier to fill their sides full of arrows than
otherwise. And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know
them to be sharp and violent, and subject-to cruel and fierce storms, dangerous to travel to
known places, much more to search an unknown coast. Besides, what could they see but a
hideous and desolate wilderness, fall of wild beasts and wild men—and what multitudes there
might be of them they knew not. Neither could they, as it were, go up to the top of Pisgah to
view from this wilderness a more goodly country to feed their hopes; for which way so ever they
turned their eyes (save upward to the heavens) they could have little solace or content in respect
of any outward objects. For summer being done, all things stand upon them with a weather beaten
face, and the whole country, full of woods and thickets, represented a wild and savage hue. If
they looked behind them, there was the mighty ocean which they had passed and was now as a
main bar and gulf to separate them from all the civil parts of the world. If it be said they had a
ship to help them, it is true; but what heard they daily from the master and company? But that
with speed they should look out a place (with their boat in shallow waters) where they would be, at
some near distance; for the season was such as he would not stir from thence till a safe harbor was
discovered by them, where they would be, and he might go without danger; and that victuals
consumed apace but he must and would keep sufficient for themselves and their return. Yea, it
was muttered by some that if they got not a place in time, they would turn them and their goods
ashore and leave them. Let it also be considered what weak hopes of supply and help they left
behind them, that might bear up their minds in this sad condition and trials they were under; and
they could not but be very small. It is true, indeed, the affections and love of their brethren at
Leyden was cordial and entire towards them, but they had little power to help them or
themselves; and how the case stood between them and the merchants at their coming away hath
already been declared

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