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10 tongue, and for the tradition ami a piratlons : •». English nation, led on< pari to d d thai th< < < iti r0. Bui other-, even Including John liobin great pastor, would stay behind; perhap if all i ol well, they would follow in later tim> That party which would go bin lined with a pany of English adventurers to iransj n them > America, the new. the unknown world. Thlfi om| was to procure them chartered rights in land- thai were without market value and hardly w rtli th« *king. For this they agreed to give the com] my h If f all the profits in traffic, fishing, tilling 11 _rr inch 1 1< other labor of all kinds, In their new home, f r th< period of seven years. They were to hav - • Is in common: four days in the week' they were to 1 »r f r the joint account, and two for themselves. At the end of seven years each planter was to ha\ the house hi had built and the garden he had tilled. They w i sail from the nearest port, Delft Haven, in the "S; lwell" for Southampton, and there gather up a few English friends, and then in the "Speedwell" and the ••Mayflower"' start on their long journey. Things being ready a day of fasting was obs< n 1 and then, in the evening, both sections of the . agi gation set out for Delft Haven, fourteen miles listant spending the whole night together In song and pray with •• friendly entertainment and Christian diSCOUl The time for parting came in the morning. That parting must separate friends and neighbors who w < each other more than friend- and lieighl rS, and in many cases if must, break families for lift lb realized it and "for the abundance of sorr w tit eould not speak " falling upon their u in - i; Inson entreated God's protection, they Bilonth embrtw d each other, then one pari turned back to lose its idontlt) In twentv-five years among the Dutch, and th t pa ed over the gang plank and und< r I he f cllsh n. to gain unparalleled fame as the fathers ami m th of agreat new state of worldwidi mm di