Comparing John Smith's Migration To America

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Smith and Bradford both arrive to America through a voyage, their voyages took an unexpected turn and they arrived almost dead. John Smith and his colonist arrived in Virginia on the verge of death, these people roughed it out and saved themselves. Just as they arrived to the colony, Smith writes, “Being thus left to our fortunes, it fortuned that within ten days, scarce ten amongst us could either go or well stand, such extreme weakness and sickness oppressed us.” (Smith 72). Smith and the rest of the colonist arrive in America, but are barely alive and their health is way below healthy. They are forced to steal, scavenge, and do anything to survive against the odds. As their leader and president of the colony was withholding all the necessities …show more content…

Just as the fair season was over and the wretched sea started to slam against the hull of the ship, Bradford writes, “they were encountered many times with cross winds and met with many fierce storms with which the ship was shroudly shaken, and her upper works made very leaky; and one of the main beams in the mid-ships was bowed and cracked, which put them in some fear that he ship could not be able to perform the voyage…in a mighty storm, a lusty young man called John Howland, coming upon some occasional above the gratings was, with a seel of the ship, thrown into sea”( Bradford 79,80). Bradford and the colonist must survive the perilous journey to America by battling horrible ocean conditions. They have a broken beam that threatens their voyage to America and a man is thrown overboard. These men and women are in the heart of the most dangerous voyage to America. They have to overcome problems at sea before they even reach land. Most of them don’t even believe that they will even make it to the land. And once they do reach land they are more grateful that they reached land and was finished with the ocean even though they are not in

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