The Fourteenth Remove

Now must we pack up and be gone from this thicket, bending our
course toward the Baytowns; I having nothing to eat by the way
this day, but a few crumbs of cake, that an Indian gave my girl
the same day we were taken. She gave it me, and I put it in my
pocket; there it lay, till it was so moldy (for want of good
baking) that one could not tell what it was made of; it fell all
to crumbs, and grew so dry and hard, that it was like little
flints; and this refreshed me many times, when I was ready to
faint. It was in my thoughts when I put it into my mouth, that
if ever I returned, I would tell the world what a blessing the
Lord gave to such mean food. As we went along they killed a
deer, with a young one in her, they gave me a piece of the fawn.
and it was so young and tender, that one might eat the bones as
well as the flesh, and yet I thought it very good. When night
came on we sat down; it rained, but they quickly got up a bark
wigwam, where I lay dry that night. I looked out in the
morning, and many of them had lain in the rain all night, I saw
by their reeking. Thus the Lord dealt mercifully with me many
times, and I fared better than many of them. In the morning
they took the blood of the deer, and put it into the paunch, and
so boiled it. I could eat nothing of that, though they ate it
sweetly. And yet they were so nice in other things, that when
I had fetched water, and had put the dish I dipped the water
with into the kettle of water which I brought, they would say
they would knock me down; for they said, it was a sluttish
trick.