The document contains three quotes from Mary White Rowlandson's 1682 narrative about her capture by Native Americans during King Philip's War. The first quote graphically describes witnessing the slaughter of fellow colonists. The second quote conveys Rowlandson's fear and uncertainty about being forced to leave her town and travel into the wilderness with her captors. The third quote has Rowlandson comparing her dire situation to a verse from Psalms, expressing that without her faith in God she would have fainted from despair.