As for my cats, they multiplied, as I have observed, to that degree that I was obliged to shoot several of them at first, to keep them from devouring me and all I had; but at length, when the two old ones I brought with me were gone, and after some time continually driving them from me, and letting them have no provision with me, they all ran wild into the woods, except two or three favourites, which I kept tame, and whose young, when they had any, I always drowned; and these were part of my family.
En cuanto a los gatos, se multiplicaron, como he dicho, hasta el punto que tuve que matar a muchos de ellos para evitar que me devorasen a mí junto con todas mis provisiones. Finalmente, después que murieron los dos que me había traído, los demás, a fuerza de perseguirlos constantemente y privarlos de alimento, huyeron a los bosques y se volvieron salvajes.