16 June 2007

Cape Cod - Pilgrims Landing...








This of course if the history as written by the US Government
Parks service:

First Discoverie: They wandered around, found a spring and saw signs of 'natives'
Second Discoverie: They came across a 'hastily deserted village where they obtained stores of corn, grain and beans*', "obtained" is an interesting word - what they really did was loot the natives winter food stores. Which led to the...
Third Discoverie: "hostile encounter with Indians. Arrows and musket balls were exchanged" - well, yes! - because the Indians are now going to starve over the winter and are more than a little miffed with the Pilgrims - who sort of set to pattern for the next two hundred years

*wikipedia says that without these stores and seed corn the Pilgrims would not have survived and that they paid the Indians back some months later. hmmm....



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