Excerpt from High Bradford Pilgrims, burning with love of freedom as they saw it, colonized the wooded country beyond the dunes; and their descendants, true to the enterprise of their birthright, turned back to the sea for their fortune, which, even in the humble day of its beginning, meant to them the profit of a man's mind as well as his body, and their decree that the colony's share Of the fisheries should go for and towards a free school for the good and benefit of pos terity bore the just fruit of such planting. Then all adventurers, whether for their souls' good or their pockets', fared forth on the high way Of the sea. English Puritans, who had dared their great adventure for God and founded the commonwealth of a new world, followed the buccaneers who beat out fresh paths for the Old peoples in the spacious time Of great Elizabeth; and these, in turn, gave place to the men who were to write a new chap ter in the unending romance of trade. London ers had invented their United Company Of Merchant Venturers of England Trading to the East Indies, the Honorable John Company. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.