However, that we might be very secure, I told him he should go back again and choose out those five, and tell them, that they might see he did not want men, that he would take out those five to be his assistants, and that the governor would keep the other two, and the three that were sent prisoners to the castle (my cave), as hostages for the fidelity of those five; and that if they proved unfaithful in the execution, the five hostages should be hanged in chains alive on the shore.
No obstante, para asegurarnos, le dije que regresara, escogiera a cinco de ellos y les dijera que tan solo escogería a cinco asistentes y que el gobernador se quedaría con los otros dos, además de los tres que habían sido enviados corno prisioneros al castillo (mi cueva), en calidad de rehenes. Si no ejecutaban su misión como era debido, los cinco rehenes serían colgados en la orilla.