And thus, with prayers, and pious conversation, and frequent singing of hymns, which the breezes caught from their lips and scattered far over the desolate waves, they prosecuted their voyage, and sailed into the harbor of Salem in the month of June.
At that period there were but six or eight dwellings in the town; and these were miserable hovels, with roofs of straw and wooden chimneys.
The passengers in the fleet either built huts with bark and branches of trees, or erected tents of cloth till they could provide themselves with better shelter.

Many of them went to form a settlement at Charlestown.
It was thought fit that the Lady Arbella should tarry in Salem for a time; she was probably received as a guest into the family of John Endicott.

He was the chief person in the plantation, and had the only comfortable house which the new-comers had beheld since they left England.

So now, children, you must imagine Grandfather's chair in the midst of a new scene.
Suppose it a hot summer's day, and the lattice-windows of a chamber in Mr.Endicott's house thrown wide open.

The Lady Arbella, looking paler than she did on shipboard, is sitting in her chair, and thinking mournfully of far-off England.