I need not repeat the arguments which occurred to me against this, they being the same mentioned before; but though I had other reasons to offer now—viz. that those men were enemies to my life, and would devour me if they could; that it was self-preservation, in the highest degree, to deliver myself from this death of a life, and was acting in my own defence as much as if they were actually assaulting me, and the like; I say though these things argued for it, yet the thoughts of shedding human blood for my deliverance were very terrible to me, and such as I could by no means reconcile myself to for a great while.
No tengo que repetir los argumentos contra este plan que se me ocurrían, pues son los mismos que he mencionado anteriormente; solo que ahora tenía otros motivos, a saber, que aquellos hombres constituían una amenaza para mi vida y me comerían si tuviesen la oportunidad; que lo único que hacía era protegerme de semejante muerte; que actuaba en defensa propia como si en verdad estuviesen atacándome; y cosas por el estilo. Pero, a pesar de que, como he dicho, tenía todos estos argumentos a mi favor, la idea de derramar sangre humana para salvarme me resultaba tan terrible que no lograba reconciliarme con ella en modo alguno.