.

CARVER

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

JONES

Aye, so it will--and the winters in this country are bad.

CARVER

Then we must start south without delay.

JONES

Look you, Master Carver--

CARVER

Well, Captain?

JONES

Belikes 'twill be a month or more before I can make the _Mayflower_
seaworthy--

CARVER

A month? Surely you can do better than that?

JONES

Perhaps not so well--why don't you land here?

CARVER

Here?

JONES

Aye. 'Tis a goodly country--full as rich as Virginia.

CARVER

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--

JONES

It is if you take it--it belongs to no one else.

CARVER

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.

JONES

So be it, Master Carver.

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.

JONES

Sit you down, Master Brown, and find what comfort you can in my poor
quarters.

PETER

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?

JONES

Aye, 'tis too bad the cabin is not a better place for your goodly
company.

PETER

Aye, well, we'll soon be out of it.

JONES

I fear me, not so soon.

PETER

Indeed, why?

JONES

The ship must be repaired before we can go on.

PETER

How long will that take ye?

JONES

Mayhap two months or more, I know not.

PETER

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

JONES

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.

PETER

Indeed!

JONES