As long as I kept my daily tour to the hill, to look out, so long also I kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so outrageous an execution as the killing twenty or thirty naked savages, for an offence which I had not at all entered into any discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my passions were at first fired by the horror I conceived at the unnatural custom of the people of that country, who, it seems, had been suffered by Providence, in His wise disposition of the world, to have no other guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated passions; and consequently were left, and perhaps had been so for some ages, to act such horrid things, and receive such dreadful customs, as nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by Heaven, and actuated by some hellish degeneracy, could have run them into.
Durante el tiempo que realizaba mi paseo diario hasta la colina, mi proyecto mantuvo todo su vigor y me encontraba siempre dispuesto a ejecutar la monstruosa matanza de los veinte o treinta salvajes indefensos, por un delito sobre el que no había reflexionado más allá del horror inicial que me causó esa perversa costumbre de la gente de aquella región, a quienes, al parecer, la Providencia había desprovisto de mejor consejo que sus vicios y sus abominables pasiones. Tal vez, desde hacía siglos, esta gente gozaba de la libertad de practicar sus horribles actos y perpetuar sus terribles costumbres como seres completamente abandonados por Dios y movidos por una infernal depravación.