sweet cordial to me when I was ready to faint; many and many a
time have I sat down and wept sweetly over this Scripture. At
this place we continued about four days.


The Fifth Remove

The occasion (as I thought) of their moving at this time was the
English army, it being near and following them. For they went
as if they had gone for their lives, for some considerable way,
and then they made a stop, and chose some of their stoutest men,
and sent them back to hold the English army in play whilst the
rest escaped. And then, like Jehu, they marched on furiously,
with their old and with their young: some carried their old
decrepit mothers, some carried one, and some another. Four of
them carried a great Indian upon a bier; but going through a
thick wood with him, they were hindered, and could make no
haste, whereupon they took him upon their backs, and carried
him, one at a time, till they came to Banquaug river. Upon a
Friday, a little after noon, we came to this river. When all
the company was come up, and were gathered together, I thought
to count the number of them, but they were so many, and being
somewhat in motion, it was beyond my skill. In this travel,
because of my wound, I was somewhat favored in my load; I
carried only my knitting work and two quarts of parched meal.
Being very faint I asked my mistress to give me one spoonful of
the meal, but she would not give me a taste. They quickly fell
to cutting dry trees, to make rafts to carry them over the
river: and soon my turn came to go over. By the advantage of
some brush which they had laid upon the raft to sit upon, I did