A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson/17 The seventeenth Remove
The ʃeventeenth Remove.
A COMFORTABLE remove it was to me, because of my hopes. They gave me my pack and along we went cheerfully; but quickly my will proved more than my strength; having little or no refreshment, my strength failed, and my spirits were almost quite gone. Now may I say as David, Pʃalm 109. 22. 23. 24. I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. I am gone like the ʃhadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down like the locuʃt: My knees are weak through ƒasting, and my ƒlesh ƒaileth of ƒatneʃs. At night we came to an Indian town, and the Indians sat down by a wigwam discoursing, but I was almost spent, and could scarce speak. I laid down my load, and went into the wigwam, and there sat an Indian boiling of horse-feet, (they being wont to eat the flesh first, and when the feet were old and dried, and they had nothing else, they would cut off the feet and use them.) I asked him to give me a little of his broth, or water they were boiling in: He took a dish, and gave me one spoonful of samp, and bid me take as much of the broth as I would. Then I put some of the hot water to the samp, and drank it up, and my spirits came again. He gave me also a piece of the ruffe, or ridding of the small guts, and I broiled it on the coals, and now I may say with Jonathan, see I pray you, how mine eyes are enlightened becauʃe I tasted a little of this honey. 1 Sam. 14. 20. Now is my spirit revived again; though means be never so inconsiderable, yet if the Lord bestow his blessing upon them, they shall refresh both soul and body.