I can but stand in admiration to see the wonderful power of God in providing for such a vast number of our enemies in the wilderness

Then I took it of the child, and eat it myself, and savory it was to my taste.

By which I certainly understood (though I suspected it before) that whatsoever the Indians told me respecting him was vanity and lies. Some of them told me he was dead, and they had killed him; some said he was married again, and that the Governor wished him to marry; and told him he should have his choice, and that all persuaded I was dead. So like were these barbarous creatures to him who was a liar from the beginning.

I thought of being sold to my husband

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.

slap in the face, and bade me go

“Nux,” which did much rejoice my spirit.

e answered me that he was not asleep, but at prayer; and lay so, that they might not observe what he was doing

.

It seems to be a bait the devil lays to make men lose their precious time.

I gave him my Bible,

knitting a pair of white cotton stockings for my mistress

and yet it was very hard to get down their filthy trash;

which cannot but be acknowledged as a favor of God

I had my Bible with me, I pulled it out, and asked her whether she would read.

I do not desire to live to forget this Scripture, and what comfort it was to me.

By their noise and hooping they signified how many they had destroyed (which was at that time twenty-three)

When I came in sight, she would fall aweeping; at which they were provoked, and would not let me come near her, but bade me be gone; which was a heart-cutting word to me.

went to see my daughter Mary

they told me they had buried it.

“your master will quickly knock your child in the head.”

“My wounds stink and are corrupt

as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other.

I then remembered how careless I had been of God’s holy time; how many Sabbaths I had lost and misspent, and how evilly I had walked in God’s sight; which lay so close unto my spirit, that it was easy for me to see how righteous it was with God to cut off the thread of my life and cast me out of His presence forever.

“I had fainted, unless I had believed, etc” (Psalm 27.13)

having no Christian friend

at which they, like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it

after it

at which they, like inhumane creatures, laughed, and rejoiced to see it,

God was with me in a wonderful manner, carrying me along, and bearing up my spirit, that it did not quite fail

as the Indians told me.

Sabbath day

deserted by the English

61. On the trail marked with pollen may I walk. 62. With grasshoppers about my feet may I walk. 63. With dew about my feet may I walk. 64. With beauty may I walk.

It is finished in beauty.

45. Talking God sits with me. 46. House God sits with me. 47. Pollen Boy sits with me. 48. Grasshopper Girl sits with me.

The rainbow returned with m

t a minute but growing fraction is becoming available via translation into the lingua franca of Eng

Hence the term "American Indian Literature" is largely ambiguous and begs more questions than it answe

l immunity

since Europeans were never wrong

irrational denial

they were regarded as neither gods nor demons, and their appearance probably did not seem more than a mildly interesting event to the ordinary Native American citize

historical experience of most Europe

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abeled "Indian

hand, there is no such thing as "Native American litera- ture," though it may yet, someday, come int

g.

fastened wings to the child

An old man, so old that p. 267 he was all white

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beautiful girl, dressed in silver and gold

After her return to her people her condition betrayed itself, and she was much persecuted; they pursued her with sticks and stones, howling abuse.