I told him it would be very hard that I should be made the instrument of their deliverance, and that they should afterwards make me their prisoner in New Spain, where an Englishman was certain to be made a sacrifice, what necessity or what accident soever brought him thither; and that I had rather be delivered up to the savages, and be devoured alive, than fall into the merciless claws of the priests, and be carried into the Inquisition.
Le dije que sería intolerable que, después de salvarles la vida, me llevasen prisionero a la Nueva España, donde cualquier inglés sería ajusticiado, independientemente de las circunstancias o necesidades que le hubiesen llevado hasta allí; y que prefería ser entregado a los salvajes y devorado vivo antes de caer en las garras de sacerdotes despiadados y ser llevado ante la Inquisición.