Monday, Nov. 13/23
                              At anchor in Cape Cod harbor, unshipped the
                              shallop and drew her on land to mend and
                              repair her.

[Bradford (Historie, Mass. ed. p. 97) says:  “Having brought a large shallop with them out of England, stowed in quarters in ye ship they now gott her out and sett their carpenters to worke to trime her up:  but being much brused and shatered in ye ship with foule weather, they saw she sould be longe in mending.”  In ‘Mourt’s Relation’ he says:  “Monday, the 13th of November, we unshipped our shallop and drew her on land to mend and repair her, having been forced to cut her down, in bestowing her betwixt the decks, and she was much opened, with the peoples lying in her, which kept us long there:  for it was sixteen or seventeen days before the Carpenter had finished her.”  Goodwin says she was “a sloop-rigged craft of twelve or fifteen tons.”  There is an intimation of Bradford that she was “about thirty feet long.”  It is evident from Bradford’s account (Historie, Mass. ed. p. 105) of her stormy entrance to Plymouth harbor that the shallop had but one mast, as he says “But herewith they broake their mast in 3 pieces and their saill fell overboard in a very grown sea.”]

                              Many went ashore to refresh themselves, and
                              the women to wash.

Tuesday, Nov. 14/24
                              Lying at anchor.  Carpenter at work on
                              shallop.  Arms and accoutrements being got
                              ready for an exploring party inland.

Wednesday, Nov. 15/25
                              Lying at anchor in harbor.  Master and
                              boat’s crew went ashore, followed in the
                              afternoon by an armed party of sixteen men
                              under command of Captain Myles Standish. 
                              Masters William Bradford, Stephen Hopkins,
                              and Edward Tilley being joined to him for
                              council.  The party to be gone from the
                              ship a day or two.  Weather mild and ground
                              not frozen.

Thursday, Nov. 16/26
                              Lying at anchor in harbor.  Exploring party
                              still absent from ship.  Weather continues
                              open.

Friday, Nov. 17/27
                              At anchor, Cape Cod harbor.  Weather open. 
                              Saw signal-fire on the other side of bay
                              this morning, built by exploring party as
                              arranged.  The Master, Governor Carver, and