But for my part I should have been sorry if he had spoken to her, for perhaps it might have alarmed her to find her affairs talked of by renegades. But God, who ordered it otherwise, afforded no opportunity for our renegade's well-meant purpose; and he, seeing how safely he could go to Shershel and return, and anchor when and how and where he liked, and that the Tagarin his partner had no will but his, and that, now I was ransomed, all we wanted was to find some Christians to row, told me to look out for any I should be willing to take with me, over and above those who had been ransomed, and to engage them for the next Friday, which he fixed upon for our departure.
Pero Dios, que lo ordenaba de otra manera, no dio lugar al buen deseo que nuestro renegado tenía; el cual, viendo cuán seguramente iba y venía a Sargel, y que daba fondo cuando y como y adonde quería, y que el tagarino, su compañero, no tenía más voluntad de lo que la suya ordenaba, y que yo estaba ya rescatado, y que sólo faltaba buscar algunos cristianos que bogasen el remo, me dijo que mirase yo cuáles quería traer conmigo, fuera de los rescatados, y que los tuviese hablados para el primer viernes, donde tenía determinado que fuese nuestra partida.