They took this boat up to the coast, saw Cape Cod and rode up the Hudson River looking for a good place to dock. Since people as they knew them didn't inhabit the land, there wasn't a dock per se. When they did finally land all they found was "savages with arrows." It was winter when they landed and they struggled through that first one for they were not used to the storms that raged on them in this new land. All they had left was their God to lean on after all of these struggles.