Keep the boat alongside!

VOICE

Aye, aye, sir!

KIEFT [_low_]

Stay here till I'm ready to leave!

VOICE

Aye, aye, sir!

JONES

Here you are--right up here, sir. Give me your hand! Ah, there you
are, sir!

KIEFT [_in_]

Thank you, sir. Are you the master of the ship?

JONES

I am, sir.

KIEFT

I understand you are engaged for the voyage.

JONES

That we are, sir, to America.

KIEFT

Aye, yes--by a company of London merchants.

JONES

And what's that to you, sir, begging your pardon?

KIEFT

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?

JONES

A hundred! Law, sir, and who wouldn't?

KIEFT

Exactly! I hoped I'd find you a man of sense.

JONES

What do you want me to do?

KIEFT

You are sailing for northern Virginia, are you not?

JONES

That's the orders.

KIEFT

Where do you expect to make land?

JONES

I was looking to make it in the mouth of the Great North River.

KIEFT

Hm--you know, I suppose, that the Dutch West India Company claims all
the land bordering on the Great North River.

JONES [_laughing_]

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.

KIEFT

Perhaps not, but your company is not going to land on Dutch territory.

JONES

Eh?

KIEFT

You are going to lose your bearings--

JONES

Me--a sailor--lose my bearings?

KIEFT

Certainly--for one hundred pounds.

JONES

Well--

KIEFT

And you will make land far to the north of the Great North River.

JONES

I'll have to see the color of the money.

KIEFT

Is it a bargain?

JONES

Have you got the money with you?

KIEFT

I have, and on your promise, I'll pay it.

JONES

All right. I'll see that the company is landed where you wish.

KIEFT

Good!

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 unseawo