“Why,” said I, “it is, that as you say there are three or four honest fellows among them which should be spared, had they been all of the wicked part of the crew I should have thought God’s providence had singled them out to deliver them into your hands; for depend upon it, every man that comes ashore is our own, and shall die or live as they behave to us.”
Si todos fueran de la misma calaña que el resto de la tripulación, habría creído que la Providencia los había escogido para que cayesen en vuestras manos. Mas, tened fe en que todo hombre que desembarque será tomado prisionero y vivirá o morirá, según se comporte con nosotros.