Fortunately, there can be no doubt in reference to the essential facts. All these events have occurred within the last three hundred years, a period fully5 covered by authentic6 historical documents. In giving occasional extracts from these documents, I have deemed it expedient7 to modernize8 the spelling, and occasionally to exchange an unintelligible9, obsolete10 word for one now in use.
For a period of about forty years, Captain Miles Standish was intimately associated with the Pilgrims.ii His memory is inseparably connected with theirs. It has been a constant pleasure to the author to endeavor to rear a worthy11 tribute to the heroic captain and the noble man, who was one of the most illustrious of those who laid the foundations of this great Republic.
JOHN S. C. ABBOTT.
Fair Haven12, Conn. 
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wilderness
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n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等,荒漠 | |
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modernize
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vt.使现代化,使适应现代的需要 | |
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adj.无法了解的,难解的,莫明其妙的 | |
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adj.已废弃的,过时的 | |
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n.安全的地方,避难所,庇护所 | |
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