Rowlandson had never composed anything she was captured, yet her book distinctively sensationalizes the mental phases of the snatching background, from the rough and bewildering "taking" to the "appalling" imprisonment, which Rowlandson partitioned into "evacuates," in light of the fact that the Indians moved camp 20 times. Advance by agonizing advance, she was being expelled from her life as a devout Puritan lady and entering the brutal universe of the Narragansetts, where she found that her will to survive was more grounded than her dread or melancholy. She shocked herself with her perseverance and capacity to adjust. She ate nourishment that already would have nauseated her, including crude steed liver and bear meat. Concerning Indians as
