Going along, having indeed my life, but little spirit, Philip, who was in the company, carne up and took me by
the hand, and said, two weeks more and you shall be mistress again. I asked him, if he spake true? He
answered, Yes, and quickdy you shall come to your master again; who had been gone from us three weeks."
After many weary steps we came to Wachusett, where he was: and glad I was to see him. He asked me, when
I washed me? I told him not this month. Then he fetched me some water himself, and bid me wash, and gave
me the glass to see how I looked; and bid his squaw give me something to eat. So she gave me a mess of
beans and meat, and a little ground nut cake. I was wonderfully revived with this favor showed me: "He made
them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives* (Psalm 106.46).
Rowlandson's purpose for including this excerpt is?