m as barbarous creatures.(137) Mary also becomes more hopeful to return home, because a council meets at Wachuset to discuss redeeming the captives of the Indians. Finally, the Indians agree to release Mary if her husband can provide them with their requested sum of twenty pounds of goods. During this time, Mary meets two Indians named Tom and Peter who help her in her quest to go home. They are Christian Indians, and when Mary sees them she bursts into tears, because her heart was so full that she could not speak to them.(142) Her happiness at the sight of these two Indians illustrates the fact that she holds a more favorable view of the Indians than she did before her captivity. She no longer harbors bad feelings towards all Indians, because she sees that they can embrace Christianity and the civilized nature of the whites. Before Mary returns to her family and friends, she points out a few things that she observed during her captivity. She observes how the Indians outsmart the English Army, and also how the Indians lived so well without the luxury and technology of the whites. She admires that the Lord preserves them for his holy ends, yet many English were destroyed(146) in their journeys. God provides for such a vast amount of [her] enemies in the wilderness, where there was nothing to be seen but from hand to mouth. They make no effort to settle in one place, and establish a civilized society like the whites. Instead, they travel constantly, and must resort to very crude means of food and shelter, yet they survive better than the English, whom Mary thought before were superior. Many English died on their journeys in the wilderness, but during all eleven weeks that Mary stayed with the Indians, not one died from hunger. God somehow provided for them. When Mary leaves for the final time, her departure seems to resemble a departure of friends. The Indians asked her to send them goods, and others [shook her] hand, offe...
