The Cassekey's Wife looking at my Child and
having her own Child in her lapp, putt it away to another Woman, and
rose upp and would not bee denied, but would have my Child. She took it
and suckled it at her Breast, feeling it from Top to Toe, and viewing it
with a sad Countenance."
The starving baby, being thus warmed and fed, stretched its little arms
and legs out on the savage breast comfortably and fell into a happy
sleep, while its mother sat apart and looked on.
"An Indian did kindly bring to her a Fish upon a Palmetto Leaf and set
it down before her; but the Pain and Thoughts within her were so great
that she could not eat."
The rest of the crew having been brought over, the chief set himself to
work and speedily had a wigwam built in which mats were spread, and the
shipwrecked people, instead of being killed and eaten, went to sleep
just as the moon rose, and the Indians began "a Consert of hideous
Noises," whether of welcome or worship they could not tell.
Dickenson and his band remained in this Indian village for several days,
endeavoring all the time to escape, in spite of the kind treatment of
the chief, who appears to have shared all that he had with them. The
Quaker kept a constant, fearful watch, lest there might be death in the
pot. When the Cassekey found they were resolved to go, he set out for
the wreck, bringing back a boat which was given to them, with butter,
sugar, a rundlet of wine, and chocolate; to Mary and the child he also
gave everything which he thought would be useful to them.
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