Excerpt from A Narrative of the Captivity, Sufferings, and Removes, of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson: Who Was Taken Prisoner by the Indians; With Several Others; And Treated in the Most Barbarous and Cruel Manner by Those Vile Savages I had often before this faid, that if the Indian; lhould come, I filould chufe rather to be killed by them, than taken alive but when it came to the trial, my mind changed; their glittering weal pons fo daunted my fpirit, that lchofe rather to go along with thofe (as I may fay) ravenous bears, than thatmornent to end my days, And that I may the better declare what happened to me, during that grievous captivity. I {hall particularly fpealt of tho feveral Removes we had Up and down the wildernefs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.