ace and time about two miles from [the] Connecticut river.
We went in the morning to gather ground nutsto the riverand went back
again that night. I went with a good load at my back (for they when they
wentthough but a little waywould carry all their trumpery with them). I
told them the skin was off my backbut I had no other comforting answer
from them than this: that it would be no matter if my head were off too.
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Instead of going toward the Baywhich was that I desiredI 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 papoosefor which she gave me a mess of brothwhich was thickened
with meal made of the bark of a treeand to make it the bettershe had put
into it about a handful of peasand a few roasted ground nuts. I had not
seen my son a pretty whileand here was an Indian of whom I made
inquiry after himand asked him when he saw him. He answered me that
such a time his master roasted himand that himself did eat a piece of him
as big as his two fingersand that he was very good meat. But the Lord
upheld my Spiritunder this discouragement; and
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