But why had they come by land when travel by water was so much easier?
They must have been walking all day, for the child seemed very tired.

Some women, who had seen them enter the old suburb at the lower part of the town, asserted that the stranger was carrying the child in his arms when he came to the town.
They saw him halt under some trees by the big spring and both man and child drink of the pure sweet waters.

On reaching the corner of what is now Washington Street he paused a moment and glanced toward the house of the governor as if he would go there; but, after a few whispered words with the child, he shook his head and turned his attention toward the principal inn of the town.
The child evidently caused this change in his mind, for Mrs.Alice Stevens, who from her window was watching the pair with no little interest, thought the little girl looked hungry and tired.

She was on the point of going out to offer her some refreshments and ask the wanderers to come in and rest, when they went on.

The travellers must have been very thirsty, for the children who followed them saw them pause at the town-pump and drink again.
There was at this time in Boston a very respectable inn, at which Bradford the governor of New Plymouth had been entertained by the elder governor Winthrop.