The generous treatment the captain gave me I can never enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard’s skin, and forty for the lion’s skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax—for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Brazils.
Nunca he podido olvidar el trato generoso que me dispensó el capitán, que no quiso aceptar nada a cambio de mi viaje y me dio veinte ducados por la piel del leopardo, cuarenta por la del león, me devolvió puntualmente todas mis pertenencias y me compró lo que quise vender, como las botellas, dos de mis armas y el trozo de cera que me había sobrado, pues el resto lo había utilizado para hacer velas. En pocas palabras, vendí mi carga en doscientas veinte piezas de a ocho y, con este acopio, desembarqué en la costa de Brasil.