one way, and some another. There were now besides myself nine
English captives in this place (all of them children, except one
woman). I got an opportunity to go and take my leave of them.
They being to go one way, and I another, I asked them whether
they were earnest with God for deliverance. They told me they
did as they were able, and it was some comfort to me, that the
Lord stirred up children to look to Him. The woman, viz.
goodwife Joslin, told me she should never see me again, and that
she could find in her heart to run away. I wished her not to
run away by any means, for we were near thirty miles from any
English town, and she very big with child, and had but one week
to reckon, and another child in her arms, two years old, and bad
rivers there were to go over, and we were feeble, with our poor
and coarse entertainment. I had my Bible with me, I pulled it
out, and asked her whether she would read. We opened the Bible
and lighted on Psalm 27, in which Psalm we especially took
notice of that, ver. ult., "Wait on the Lord, Be of good
courage, and he shall strengthen thine Heart, wait I say on the
Lord."


The Fourth Remove

And now I must part with that little company I had. Here I
parted from my daughter Mary (whom I never saw again till I saw
her in Dorchester, returned from captivity), and from four
little cousins and neighbors, some of which I never saw
afterward: the Lord only knows the end of them. Amongst them
also was that poor woman before mentioned, who came to a sad
end, as some of the company told me in my travel: she having