During all this time I was in a murdering humour, and spent most of my hours, which should have been better employed, in contriving how to circumvent and fall upon them the very next time I should see them—especially if they should be divided, as they were the last time, into two parties; nor did I consider at all that if I killed one party—suppose ten or a dozen—I was still the next day, or week, or month, to kill another, and so another, even _ad infinitum_, till I should be, at length, no less a murderer than they were in being man-eaters—and perhaps much more so.
Durante todo este tiempo, me sentía invadido por un sentimiento criminal y pasaba muchas horas, que pude haber empleado en mejores asuntos, imaginando cómo cercarlos y atacarlos la próxima vez que los viera, en especial, si venían en dos grupos como la vez anterior. No se me ocurrió en aquel momento, que si mataba a uno de los grupos, formado por diez o doce salvajes, según mis cálculos, al día siguiente, o a la semana o el mes siguiente, debía matar otro y así, ad infinitum, hasta convertirme en un asesino de la misma calaña que estos caníbales, si no peor.