title: Mayflower 1620: A New Look at a Pilgrim Voyage
author: Plimoth Plantation
description: "Learn the difference between myth and reality in this well-documented book about the Mayflower journey....Clear, crisp color photos bring the adventure to life." <i>WonderKorner</i>
zlib_text: [NOTE: There is a short list of bookmarks, or pointers, at the end of the file
  for those who may wish to sample the author's ideas before making an entire
  meal of them. D.W.]
  
  # THE MAY-FLOWER AND HER LOG
  
  July 15, 1620—May 6, 1621  
  Chiefly from Original Sources  
  
  By AZEL AMES, M.D.  
  Member of Pilgrim Society, etc.  
  
  "Next to the fugitives whom Moses led out of Egypt, the little  
  shipload of outcasts who landed at Plymouth are destined to  
  influence the future of the world."  
  JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL  
  
  ## INTRODUCTORY
  
  O civilized humanity, world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the
  Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid on New England shores the foundations of that
  civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the
  oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim "Exodus" has an ever-
  increasing value and zest. The little we know of the inception, development,
  and vicissitudes of their bold scheme of colonization in the American
  wilderness only serves to sharpe