“Being thus arrived in a good harbor, and brought safe to land, they fell upon their knees and blessed the God of Heaven who had brought them over the vast and furious ocean, and delivered them from all the perils and miseries thereof, again to set their feet on the firm and stable earth, their proper element.”William Bradford Ch. 1.
“But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.”William Bradford Ch. 4.