Being got out of her sight, I had time and liberty again to look
into my Bible; which was my guide by day, and my pillow by
night. Now that comfortable Scripture presented itself to me,
"For a small moment have I forsaken thee, but with great mercies
will I gather thee" (Isaiah 54.7). Thus the Lord carried me
along from one time to another, and made good to me this
precious promise, and many others. Then my son came to see me,
and I asked his master to let him stay awhile with me, that I
might comb his head, and look over him, for he was almost
overcome with lice. He told me, when I had done, that he was
very hungry, but I had nothing to relieve him, but bid him go
into the wigwams as he went along, and see if he could get any
thing among them. Which he did, and it seems tarried a little
too long; for his master was angry with him, and beat him, and
then sold him. Then he came running to tell me he had a new
master, and that he had given him some ground nuts already.
Then I went along with him to his new master who told me he
loved him, and he should not want. So his master carried him
away, and I never saw him afterward, till I saw him at
Piscataqua in Portsmouth.

That night they bade me go out of the wigwam again. My
mistress's papoose was sick, and it died that night, and there
was one benefit in it--that there was more room. I went to a
wigwam, and they bade me come in, and gave me a skin to lie
upon, and a mess of venison and ground nuts, which was a choice
dish among them. On the morrow they buried the papoose, and
afterward, both morning and evening, there came a company to
mourn and howl with her; though I confess I could not much