the morning, another Indian bade me come at night, and he would
give me six ground nuts, which I did. We were at this place and
time about two miles from [the] Connecticut river. We went in
the morning to gather ground nuts, to the river, and went back
again that night. I went with a good load at my back (for they
when they went, though but a little way, would carry all their
trumpery with them). I told them the skin was off my back, but
I had no other comforting answer from them than this: that it
would be no matter if my head were off too.


The Thirteenth Remove

Instead of going toward the Bay, which was that I desired, I
must go with them five or six miles down the river into a mighty
thicket of brush; where we abode almost a fortnight. Here one
asked me to make a shirt for her papoose, for which she gave me
a mess of broth, which was thickened with meal made of the bark
of a tree, and to make it the better, she had put into it about
a handful of peas, and a few roasted ground nuts. I had not
seen my son a pretty while, and here was an Indian of whom I
made inquiry after him, and asked him when he saw him. He
answered me that such a time his master roasted him, and that
himself did eat a piece of him, as big as his two fingers, and
that he was very good meat. But the Lord upheld my Spirit,
under this discouragement; and I considered their horrible
addictedness to lying, and that there is not one of them that
makes the least conscience of speaking of truth. In this place,
on a cold night, as I lay by the fire, I removed a stick that
kept the heat from me. A squaw moved it down again, at which I