These considerations really put me to a pause, and to a kind of a full stop; and I began by little and little to be off my design, and to conclude I had taken wrong measures in my resolution to attack the savages; and that it was not my business to meddle with them, unless they first attacked me; and this it was my business, if possible, to prevent: but that, if I were discovered and attacked by them, I knew my duty.
Estas consideraciones me detuvieron en seco y comencé, poco a poco, a abandonar mi proyecto y a pensar que me había equivocado en mi resolución de atacar a los salvajes pues no debía entrometerme en sus asuntos a menos que me atacaran, lo cual, debía evitar si era posible. Mas, si me descubrían y atacaban, sabía lo que tenía que hacer.