Having no right to settle there, as the cape lay far to the northward of the lands owned by the London Company, they turned their ship southward and attempted to go on.
But head winds drove them back and forced them to seek shelter in Provincetown harbor, at the end of Cape Cod.
[Illustration: The Mayflower[1]] [Footnote 1: From the model in the National Museum, Washington.] [Illustration: THE MASSACHUSETTS COAST (map)] %33.

The Mayflower Compact% .-- Since it was then the 11th of November, the Pilgrims, as they are now called, decided to get permission from the Plymouth Company to remain permanently.

But certain members of the party, when they heard this, became unruly, and declared that as they were not to land in Virginia, they were no longer bound by the contracts they had made in England regarding their emigration to Virginia.

To put an end to this, a meeting was held, November 21, 1620, in the cabin of the _Mayflower_, and a compact was drawn up and signed.[1] It declared 1.

That they were loyal subjects of the King.
2.