Pilgrim's Voyage Research Paper

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the settlers' first winter in the new land. The voyage over "fast and furious seas" was dangerous and miserable. Many of the Pilgrims suffered from seasickness, and they also endured the hateful taunting and verbal abuse of some of the rough sailors who made up the crew. A terrible situation created about part of the way through the voyage when one of the main beams broke, making it exceptionally unverifiable that the ship could finish the voyage. Brief repairs were made, and the ship cruised on, now and then meeting with rough tempests that constrained them to drop the sails and float defenselessly in the sea. They had not taken food to get ready for being stranded amid the winter. Out of more than 100 Pilgrims, scarcely 50 lived. Those that