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Edited by Chovi Thach<\/h6>\n\n\n
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Image: A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson<\/em><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Now must we pack up and be gone from this thicket, bending our course toward the Baytowns; I having nothing to eat by the way this day, but a few crumbs of cake, that an Indian gave my girl the same day we were taken. She gave it me, and I put it in my pocket; there it lay, till it was so moldy (for want of good baking) that one could not tell what it was made of; it fell all to crumbs, and grew so dry and hard, that it was like little flints1<\/a><\/sup>; and this refreshed me many times, when I was ready to faint. It was in my thoughts when I put it into my mouth, that if ever I returned, I would tell the world what a blessing the Lord gave to such mean food. As we went along they killed a deer, with a young one in her, they gave me a piece of the fawn, and it was so young and tender, that one might eat the bones as well as the flesh, and yet I thought it very good. When night came on we sat down; it rained, but they quickly got up a bark wigwam<\/a>, where I lay dry that night. I looked out in the morning, and many of them had lain in the rain all night, I saw by their reeking. Thus the Lord dealt mercifully with me many times, and I fared better than many of them. In the morning they took the blood<\/a> of the deer, and put it into the paunch, and so boiled it. I could eat nothing of that, though they ate it sweetly. And yet they were so nice in other things, that when I had fetched water, and had put the dish I dipped the water with into the kettle of water which I brought, they would say they would knock2<\/a><\/sup> me down; for they said, it was a sluttish3<\/a><\/sup> trick.<\/p>\n\n\n

Acknowledgments:<\/p>\n

Thanks to Project Gutenberg<\/em> and archive.org for providing the digitized versions of Rowlandson\u2019s text free of charge. Without their generosity, this project would not be possible.<\/p>

  1. Forms of rocks or mineral. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li>

  2. Rowlandson claims this was the main method her captors would use to threaten her into submission throughout her captivity. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li>

  3. An old English term to mean unclean; dirty; untidy. Source: https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/sluttish. ↩<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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