Page:A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson.djvu/93

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This page has been proofread, but needs to be validated.
Mrs. Rowlandʃon.
87

to him, 2 Kings 6. 25. There was a famine in Samaria, and behold they beʃieged it, until an aʃs's head was ʃold for fourʃcore pieces of ʃilver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung, for five pieces of ʃilver. He expounded this place to his brother, and shewed him that it was lawful to eat that in a famine, which it is not at another time. And now, says he, he will eat horse with any Indian of them all. There was another praying Indian, who when he had done all the mischief that he could, betrayed his own father into the English's hands, thereby to purchase his own life. Another praying Indian was at Sudbury fight, though as he deserved, he was afterwards hanged for it. There was another praying Indian, so wicked and cruel, as to wear a string about his neck, strung with christian fingers. Another praying Indian, when they went to Sudbury fight, went with them, and his Squaw also with him, with her papoos