My patron lying at home longer than usual without fitting out his ship, which, as I heard, was for want of money, he used constantly, once or twice a week, sometimes oftener if the weather was fair, to take the ship’s pinnace and go out into the road a-fishing; and as he always took me and young Maresco with him to row the boat, we made him very merry, and I proved very dexterous in catching fish; insomuch that sometimes he would send me with a Moor, one of his kinsmen, and the youth—the Maresco, as they called him—to catch a dish of fish for him.
A menudo, nos llevaba a mí y a un joven morisco para que remáramos, pues le agradábamos mucho. Yo di muestras de ser tan diestro en la pesca que, a veces, me mandaba con uno de sus parientes moros y con el joven, el morisco, a fin de que le trajésemos pescado para la comida.