It was, therefore, a very good providence to me that I had furnished myself with a tame breed of goats, and that I had no need to hunt any more about the woods, or shoot at them; and if I did catch any of them after this, it was by traps and snares, as I had done before; so that for two years after this I believe I never fired my gun once off, though I never went out without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I always carried them out with me, or at least two of them, sticking them in my goat-skin belt.
Si alguna vez capturé una cabra después de aquel día, fue con trampas y lazos, como lo había hecho anteriormente y, en dos años, no disparé el arma ni una sola vez, aunque nunca salía sin ella. Más aún, como tenía tres pistolas que había rescatado del barco, siempre llevaba, por lo menos, dos de ellas, aseguradas a mi cinturón de cuero de cabra.