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...ut take notice, how at another time I could not bear to be in the room where any dead person was, but now the case is changed; I must and could lie down by my dead baby, side by side all night after” (38). Rowlandson also reveals another bad condition when she says, “In this travel, because of my wound, I was somewhat favored in my load; I carried only my knitting work and two quarts of parched meal” (39). She had to walk everywhere she went, which must have been exhausting due to the long distances, her wound, and her commands to carry things through the wilderness. There were no electronics back then. The weather in which Rowlandson, among other captives, walked in was very cold. She explains how they had to float across a river on a newly made raft by saying, “By the advantage of some brush which they had laid upon the raft to sit upon, I did not wet my Loggins 3 foot (which many of themselves at the other end were midleg deep) which cannot but be acknowledged as a favor of God to my weakened body, it being a very cold time” (39). Also by saying this, Rowlandson again expresses her faith in God and also her acknowledgement of worship towards God. During these harsh conditions, Rowlandson continued to read a Bible that she had received from an Indian. Along with all of these harsh conditions that came her way, Rowlandson also was treated in an ill manner. When she was first captured by the Wampanoags, they didn’t give her any food: “It may be easily judged what a poor feeble condition we were in, there being not the least crumb of refreshing that came within either of our mouths from Wednesday night to Saturday night, except only a little cold water” (37). Rowlandson was commanded to walk with other captives for many miles without food or water. The food she and th...