This is "The Story of My Captivity by Savages," or "How I Learned to Fight"
by Eliza Elizabeth Cook, age 13
Writ in my own hand on this, the 23rd day of August, 1829.
"Fine Day for a Flaying," or "The Brutal Massacre of All I Held Dear."
Chapter one.
The valley that runs down the trail over the west bank of the glorious state of Natchez-Pierce was the site of my own hideous undoing. My whole family was lain waste, no care taken by the natives that even baby Coolidge was to be spared an ounce of pain.
How I came to be spared, by the grace of God, I shall never know.
I had been smashed in the head with a boulder over fourteen times by a young In dian brave. When I awoke, with eyes still stinging from the smouldering decimati on, my large blue eyes looked up into the burning sun of the late summer sky. No sooner had I stirred when four horsemen approached my wilted carcasse. In their stilted English, they told me in great detail how they had massacred mine own M a and Pa, how my elder brother Ham had given no resistance to his own flogging, and how easy it had been to make my sickly sister, Sarah Susanna, wail and sob l ike a sea creature. (Boo hoo!)
I clenched my long, graceful fingers into tight fists at my sides, and turning my head away, laughed quietly to myself. (Ha ha ha!) If these human animals beli eved that they had captured a nubile and willing young white slave girl, they we re sorely mistaken.
I felt about my waist for a weapon. Oftentimes, I kept sewing tools hanging fro m ribbons pinned to my dress. "Looking for this?" the handsomest warri or asked, holding my sterling pinking shears up between two red fingers as he lo oked down from his steed at my writhing confusion.
Brushing a strand of pale yellow hair from my brow, I pretended to reach for a stray silken slipper that I had spied nearby, but swiftly darted up and in betwe en the flanks of the wild mustangs that stood majestically before me!
The silent commander had only to reach down to capture me by the hair. Yanking hard, he pulled me upright, and twisted my fair face up to meet his cold, cold g aze. I shall never forget my realization upon that moment that my freedom had th us been robbed. And that although my pleasing mortal shell was intact,I, Eliza E lizabeth Jane Cook, was to become a handmaiden to a number of verile, half-naked nomads, and that this ordeal would continue fourteen years.
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