It would take up a larger volume than this whole work is intended to be to set down all the contrivances I hatched, or rather brooded upon, in my thoughts, for the destroying these creatures, or at least frightening them so as to prevent their coming hither any more: but all this was abortive; nothing could be possible to take effect, unless I was to be there to do it myself: and what could one man do among them, when perhaps there might be twenty or thirty of them together with their darts, or their bows and arrows, with which they could shoot as true to a mark as I could with my gun?
Haría falta un libro mucho más voluminoso que este para ilustrar todos los métodos que ideé para destruir a esas criaturas, o, por lo menos, para asustarlas y evitar que volviesen otra vez. Mas todos eran inservibles porque requerían de mi presencia y ¿qué podía hacer un solo hombre contra ellos, que quizás serían veinte o treinta, armados de lanzas, arcos y flechas con las que tenían tan buena puntería como yo con mi escopeta?