While many may believe that native encounters occurred immediately, the Pilgrims lived at Plymouth for four months before having any direct contact with the natives. They must have been a little surprised when the first native spoke broken English. Today's episode covers the first days of Plymouth and the first encounters with natives.
Read “Of Plimouth Plantation”: https://www.amazon.com/Plymouth-Plantation-Modern-English/dp/1720937567/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=Of+Plimouth+Plantation&qid=1623594189&sr=8-3
Read Mourt’s Relation by Edward Winslow: http://www.histarch.illinois.edu/plymouth/mourt1.html Winslow
Image Courtesy By School of Robert Walker - From the collection of the Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth, MA, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1398857
Fife and Drum by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3748-fife-and-drum License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
