The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Landing of the Pilgrims, by Henry Fisk Carlton.

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There are some directions in this play which may be new to you, but these are necessary, for you are now in a radio broadcasting studio, talking in front of a microphone. The word [ in ] means that the character is standing close to the microphone, while [ off ] indicates that he is farther away, so that his voice sounds faint. When the directions [ off , coming in ] are given, the person speaking is away from the microphone at first but gradually comes closer. The words [ mob ] or [ crowd noise ] you will understand mean the sound of many people talking in the distance.

Both the English and the dialect used help make the characters live, so the speeches have been written in the way in which these men and women would talk. This means that sometimes the character may use what seems to you unusual English. The punctuation helps, too, to make the speeches sound like real conversation; for example, you will find that a dash is often used to show that a character is talking very excitedly.

The Landing of the Pilgrims

CAST

PASTOR ROBINSON
ELDER CARVER
WILHELM KIEFT
VOICE
THOMAS WESTON
CAPTAIN JONES
PETER BROWN
MOB

ANNOUNCER

It was in the month of December in 1620 that the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth Rock and proceeded to establish the first permanent white settlement in New England. But the Pilgrims had not set out for America to establish their new home in New England—far from it—they had a charter permitting their settlement in the northern portion of the Virginia plantation, and it was toward Virginia that the little band of passengers aboard the Mayflower thought they were heading. The story of how they happened to come to the stern and rockbound coast of New England and of how they happened to stay there and carve out of the wilderness a great commonwealth is told here.

Let us begin our story in Leyden, Holland, where for some eleven years the Pilgrims have lived in exile from England, driven out because of their religious faith. It is early in the year 1620, and John Robinson, who is the pastor and leader of the Pilgrims, is talking to John Carver, who is one of the elders of the church. [Pg 2]

Nay, not a word. I fear me that he and Master Cushman have found it impossible to raise such a large sum of money.

If we delay much longer King James may repent himself of his generosity in allowing us to settle in Virginia.

Nay, nay, do not lose heart. Jehovah will find a way for his children. Remember, the Children of Israel wandered for forty years in the wilderness before they found rest in the Promised Land.

I'll not lose faith, Pastor Robinson. I know a way will be found for us. [ knock ]

I am honored, Master Kieft. Allow me to present Master Carver. [ they greet each other ]

And now to the business that brought me here—it is rumored about Leyden that you and your company are about to leave Leyden. Is that true?

I am a member of the Dutch West India Company, which possesses a large tract of land in the New World.

Ah, yes, through the discovery of a countryman of yours, Henry Hudson, who sailed under our flag, we own the country from the Great South River to the Great North River, where, I am told, the climate is healthful and pleasant, and the land rich and bountiful.

My company is prepared to furnish you land upon which to found a colony, and capital to carry you and your people there and support you until you have made yourselves self-supporting.

Nothing, except that you should live under the Dutch flag and make our claim to the land secure.

Indeed, yes, if you are interested, my company will make you a written offer within a fortnight.

I know but little of the New World. I know not even where the Great North River or the Great South River may be, but only this I know: King James and his Virginia Company would take it much amiss, that having a patent to lands in Virginia, we turned to the Dutch and settled under their flag.

And what has King James ever done for us but persecute us, drive us from our homes, and make of us pilgrims upon the face of the earth?

Aye, but I am an Englishman. I had looked with joy upon our emigration to America, because I had hoped we could once again live under British rule.

Many of our company have felt the same; but if we cannot go except under the Dutch flag, still we must go.

ANNOUNCER

So the offer of the Dutch West India Company was received and in due course of time the provisions were put into writing. The Pilgrim company discussed the offer from every angle. All of them would have preferred to settle under the British flag, if it could have been arranged, but because more than six months had passed and they had not found anyone who could finance them, they felt that the Dutch offer should be accepted.

Therefore, near the end of February, 1620, Pastor Robinson and Elder Carver meet with Wilhelm Kieft to settle finally the matter of the emigration. Let us listen as they talk together.

That is all. Otherwise you shall do what pleases you; but all of the fur must belong to the Dutch West India Company.

Thank you, Elder. Ah, here is the quill. Now, where is the inkhorn? Ah, yes, here.

I'm Thomas Weston, and I have come on behalf of a company of London merchants—

Master Robinson, your pardon, but may we not finish this business in hand? [Pg 10]

Certainly! Elder Carver, Master Kieft is waiting for us to sign the Articles of Emigration.

Master Kieft, this may cause us to change our plans; we must consider. What is your offer, Master Weston?

A company of seven London merchants has agreed to furnish ships and capital to carry you and your people to America.

We have signed nothing yet. Where, Master Weston, does your company propose that we settle?

I care not what your sovereign may have decreed—he has no claim to that land. My company discovered and explored it!

I do not wish to argue with you, sir. I am here to close this business with you, Master Robinson. I am waiting—

Master Kieft, the situation has changed. We are Englishmen, and if we can emigrate under our own flag, you cannot blame us for preferring it to another.

And I warn you if you go to our land under the British flag, you shall regret it, sir, you shall regret it. Good day! [ sound of door slamming ]

ANNOUNCER

Thus the Pilgrims incurred the enmity of the Dutch West India Company, and though the terms of the London merchants were not so generous as those offered by the Dutch company, the Pilgrims accepted them and set about making their preparations for the great adventure.

Our next scene is early in July of 1620. The Mayflower has been engaged for the voyage, and is lying at anchor in the Thames River off London, where it is undergoing some repairs preparatory to taking on cargo, which is to come to the New World. Aboard the ship is only the master, Captain Jones, when he is disturbed by—

No matter, I know well enough you are. And now, sir, I want to know if you'd like to put yourself in the way of earning a hundred pounds?

Hm—you know, I suppose, that the Dutch West India Company claims all the land bordering on the Great North River. [Pg 15]

Why, sir, everybody claims it. That's no matter. King James has proclaimed that all the land that has been settled belongs to them that has settled it; the rest is anybody's. When the company I'm taking gets their plantation settled, the Dutch can't claim the land any longer.

ANNOUNCER

And so Captain Jones of the Mayflower was bribed by Dutch gold to play false with the band of Pilgrims. You know the story of the long and difficult job the Pilgrims had in getting fairly started on their voyage. The Speedwell sprang a leak, and they had to put back to Plymouth harbor where the ship was repaired. They made a second start, and again the Speedwell became unseaworthy and the captain refused to go on, so a second time the little flotilla put back to Plymouth. This time, since the season was far advanced and the Pilgrims feared that winter would be upon them before they could get established in their new home, the Speedwell was left behind, and on September 16, 1620, the Mayflower left alone for the New World. Halfway across the ocean the ship was beset by a long series of storms, so severe that it took more than two months for the ship to make the trip across the Atlantic. At last, on the morning of November 20, 1620, the ship's company were awakened by the electric cry of—

Land! Land! Is it really land? Captain, Captain! Have we really made land? Land? [ etc. ]

How should I? We've been tossed about in storms for a month, with no sun for days on end.

Forty-two north—but, Captain, we are bound for forty north—we're out of our course.

We have no right to land here. Our charter grants us land in Virginia, not here!

I can't help that. The ship is in bad shape—I won't risk sailing her any farther without repairs.

Very well, you may stop here for repairs, but we must go on as soon as they are made. [Pg 19]

Well, get to it at once—this very day! We must get away from here within a fortnight or winter will be upon us.

Belikes 'twill be a month or more before I can make the Mayflower seaworthy—

Nay, nay, 'tis not to be thought on. We have a patent to lands in Virginia—a charter to establish and rule a plantation there; but here—why, the land is not ours—

But our Council would have no rights under the King—nay, nay. We go on to Virginia—as soon as you have made your repairs.

ANNOUNCER

So the Mayflower brought up to anchor just inside Cape Cod, near the present village of Provincetown. The voyage had been long and arduous. There had been much sickness aboard, and Captain Jones knew that most of the passengers longed to set foot on solid ground and begin the task of building their homes. So he determined to create further dissatisfaction among them.

For our next scene we are going into Captain Jones's cabin just as one of the five men of the company, Peter Brown, has come into the cabin on the captain's invitation.

Poor! If this cabin is poor, Captain, what do ye call what us folks has to put up with, all crowded into the common cabin like sheep er worse? [Pg 21]

Two months? Two months more in the cabin of this ship and half of our company will be dead.

Aye, belikes they will—and winter will be upon us hard and heavy. The winters in this country are worse than any you have ever seen in England or Holland.

The snow lies so deep it would cover a man's head—the land is blotted out, and even the sea freezes—

You'd stay packed in the ship's cabin, facing sickness and death, rather than rise up like men and tell the Elder what you will and what you won't do, eh?

Elder Carver and the twelve masters have the voice; we have naught to do but to obey.

Mutiny? Nay, we be lawful men, bound together in the love of Jehovah; we'll not mutiny! We must abide by our charter.

Hold—have you thought on this—the charter binds you under the King's grant in Virginia Plantation—

You have here all the rights of free-born Englishmen. And if you rise like men and demand that your Elders hearken to your voice, who shall gainsay you?

Then have your way—like Englishmen! Go to your cabin. Talk to the men of your company, tell them what I have told you.

Good! [ sound of door closing ] [ to himself ] Well, Elder Carver, we shall see whose voice is stronger—yours, or the voice of forty English freemen!

ANNOUNCER

Thus Captain Jones planted in the mind of one of the freemen of the Pilgrim company an idea which he was sure would bear fruit before many hours. He watched the company as first one man and then another fell in with Peter Brown. He felt the temper of the company changing, but he still did not feel that mutiny was likely against the strong religious authority of the Elders. And so to bring the matter to a head, he asked Carver to come to his cabin. As the door closes, the captain begins—

What with finding the proper timbers ashore, and hewing them to fit our needs, I fear it may well be two months or more before we can leave these waters.

Surely you can make what repairs are necessary in less time—you need not rebuild the ship.

Nay—but the ship is sprung at every seam; 'tis nothing but good fortune that has kept it afloat so long.

The crew has more than it can do to repair the ship and make it ready to sail on to Virginia, since you insist on going on. [Pg 26]

Then I'll set our company to work on the stores—we must not let them be ruined.

Nay, or you'll all face starvation, for you can count on nothing from the land at this late date.

We must unship the stores; [ going ] we'll begin at once. [ sound of door opening ]

ANNOUNCER

So Carver gathered together his company in the common cabin, and standing before the stern-faced, storm-weary gathering, the Elder spoke:

Men of the Pilgrim company, as no doubt you are all well aware by now, the land we made this morning with such joy and thanksgiving in our hearts is not the land of the Virginia Plantation.

But our ship is sore distressed from the buffeting of the storms, and Captain Jones must needs make repairs before we can sail on to our destination. [ protests and grumblings ]

I would it were not so, for I know how weary you find yourselves after the many days upon the sea. But there's naught else to do.

Nay, nay, it cannot be. This is not Virginia; we have no patent to these lands. We must sail on. The captain and his crew will make their repairs as soon as they can, but our stores in the hold are all of them in danger of spoiling—so we must needs unship them ourselves until such time as we may sail away from here. So let every man prepare himself for work.

And more—'tis not our wish to stay aboard this ship longer—[ mob assents ]

Aye, we kin land here, and find a goodly place to build our homes and prepare against the winter that will be down upon us long before we kin get to Virginia. [ mob agrees heartily ] [Pg 28]

Men—men—quiet—hark to me! We've no right under our charter to settle here!

We be freemen, Master Carver; we have a right to a voice in what we'll do, and what we won't do—and we all want to land here, don't we, men? [ all agree ]

It may be for the best interest of the company and for the glory of Jehovah. I consent to your wishes. [ cheers ] But it behooves us to enter into a compact, one with the other—that no man may say, once we have landed in New England, that we have no law and cannot punish the disobedient. [Pg 29]

May it please ye, sir, we be more than willing for the masters to write a compact that all can sign to be governed like any free-born Englishmen by the will o' the majority—[ all agree ]

So be it—let the masters of the company join me in my cabin, and we shall make a compact joining all the company of freemen into a body politic. [ cheers ]

ANNOUNCER

And so in the cabin of the Mayflower the masters of the company, twelve in number, met in the first American legislative assembly and drew up one of the most famous documents in American history—the Mayflower Compact—which organized the first self-governing community in the New World.

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