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George Bancroft, History of the Colonization of the United States, Vol. 1, 17th edition., Chapter 8: (search)
e people, that died that winter, took the original of their death in the enterprise; for it snowed and did blow all the day and night, and froze withal. The men who were set on shore, were tired with marching up and down the steep hills and deep vallies, which lay half a foot thick with snow. A heap of maize was discovered; and further search led to a burial-place of the Indians; but they found no more corn, nor any thing else but graves. At length, the shallop was again sent out, with Dec. 6. Carver, Bradford, Winslow, Standish, and others, with eight or ten seamen. The cold was severe; the spray of the sea froze as it fell on them, and made their clothes like coats of iron. That day they reached Billingsgate Point, at the bottom of the Bay of Cape Cod, on the western shore of Wellfleet harbor. The next morning, the company divided; Dec. 7. those on shore find a burial-place, graves, and four or five deserted wigwams, but neither people, nor any place inviting a settlement.