It was a cold November day in 1620 when a band of Algonquin Indians looked up and saw the square-rigger Mayflower bobbing off the shores of Massachusetts. To their minds this, understandably, was an unexpected sight. Last week, as a reasonable facsimile of the ship sailed—or, more exactly, was towed (against the tide by a Coast Guard cutter)—into sight of thousands at Provincetown, on Cape Cod, there was no surprise, for the voyage of Mayflower II had for months been heralded in the land till many New Englanders grew bored or cynical....
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