"I was a little too hasty I must own; but as you seem to be desirous to know by what accident I came to be a slave on board the galley where you saw me, I will inform you. After I had been cured of the wound you gave me, by the College apothecary, I was attacked and carried off by a party of Spanish troops, who clapped me in prison in Buenos Ayres, at the very time my sister was setting out from there.
No tratemos mas de eso, dixo el baron, yo confieso que me excedí un poco. Pero una vez que desea vm. saber como me he visto en galeras, le contaré que despues que me hubo sanado de mi herida el hermano boticario del colegio, me acometió y me hizo prisionero una partida española, y me pusiéron en la cárcel de Buenos-Ayres, quando acababa mi hermana de embarcarse para Europa.