| Publication |
2009.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Shortly after William Bradford and
his fellow pilgrims arrived on the eastern
shores of the New World in the cold
autumn of 1620, a small group of men
set out to make a "full discovery" of the
snow-covered land.1 After some days
of wandering the unknown rivers and
hills, they grew hungry. With Providence
observing, they thought, the men happened
upon a store of corn and grain
that Indians had cached underground.
The ravenous pilgrims took the food
for their own. The next day, Bradford
reports that the company wandered
into the wilderness deeper still, following
the well-beaten trails of the Indians,
in the hope that they would ½nd a town;
they encountered no one. Eventually
the company came to a flat area covered
with boards. Curious, the men
began to dig.
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