Building on my previous work on bodily anxieties experienced by late medieval English pilgrims traveling in the Levant and the large body of literature on early modern English encounters with American Indians, I am looking at the anxieties engendered when English Puritans in Indian captivity had to share food and conversation with French Jesuits. This research will form part of a larger project exploring how the shared experience of confessional disputes, expressed in texts and objects flowing both ways across the Atlantic, served to preserve bonds between Protestant communities in Old and New England.