As my new patron, or master, had taken me home to his house, so I was in hopes that he would take me with him when he went to sea again, believing that it would some time or other be his fate to be taken by a Spanish or Portugal man-of-war; and that then I should be set at liberty.
Como mi nuevo patrón, o señor, me había llevado a su casa, tenía la esperanza de que me llevara consigo cuando volviese al mar. Estaba convencido de que, tarde o temprano, su destino sería caer prisionero de la armada española o portuguesa y, de ese modo, yo recobraría mi libertad.