full of dirt, and yet alive, and groaning. I advised John to go
and get to some fire. He told me he could not stand, but I
persuaded him still, lest he should lie there and die. And with
much ado I got him to a fire, and went myself home. As soon as
I was got home his master's daughter came after me, to know what
I had done with the Englishman. I told her I had got him to a
fire in such a place. Now had I need to pray Paul's Prayer
"That we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men" (2
Thessalonians 3.2). For her satisfaction I went along with her,
and brought her to him; but before I got home again it was
noised about that I was running away and getting the English
youth, along with me; that as soon as I came in they began to
rant and domineer, asking me where I had been, and what I had
been doing? and saying they would knock him on the head. I told
them I had been seeing the English youth, and that I would not
run away. They told me I lied, and taking up a hatchet, they
came to me, and said they would knock me down if I stirred out
again, and so confined me to the wigwam. Now may I say with
David, "I am in a great strait" (2 Samuel 24.14). If I keep in,
I must die with hunger, and if I go out, I must be knocked in
head. This distressed condition held that day, and half the
next. And then the Lord remembered me, whose mercies are great.
Then came an Indian to me with a pair of stockings that were too
big for him, and he would have me ravel them out, and knit them
fit for him. I showed myself willing, and bid him ask my
mistress if I might go along with him a little way; she said
yes, I might, but I was not a little refreshed with that news,
that I had my liberty again. Then I went along with him, and he
gave me some roasted ground nuts, which did again revive my
feeble stomach.