The Mayflower and Her Log; July 15, 1620-May 6, 1621 — Complete

CHAPTER I

THE NAME--“MAY-FLOWER”

“Curiously enough,” observes Professor Arber, “these names [MAY-FLOWER and SPEEDWELL] do not occur either in the Bradford manuscript or in ‘Mourt’s Relation.’”

[A Relation, or Journal, of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth in New England, etc. G. Mourt, London, 1622. Undoubtedly the joint produc...