Comes from these companies who support cspan3 as a public service. Next well tour the mayflower ii to see what life was like on board. I am richard pickering, deputy executive director of plymouth tucker museums and we are at state pier in plymouth, massachusetts. Mayflower ii is behind us. A writer by the name of Robert Matthews gives them the name of pilgrim fathers which still, in the United Kingdom today are called pilgrim fathers. We in america tend to call them pilgrims. The reason they are cited is they are referred to as pilgrims in poetry. People who went on a journey for religious reasons went on a journey for personal sdoefr. And so that use of the word pilgrim gives them a pilgrim identity. But we all need to remember that they themselves did not have a group identity. They were a very heterogenuous group that had to learn how to live together. Aboard mayflower and the first few ships that would follow, there was upwards of 17 different dialect regions represented in plymou