Yet I entertained such an abhorrence of the savage wretches that I have been speaking of, and of the wretched, inhuman custom of their devouring and eating one another up, that I continued pensive and sad, and kept close within my own circle for almost two years after this: when I say my own circle, I mean by it my three plantations—viz. my castle, my country seat (which I called my bower), and my enclosure in the woods: nor did I look after this for any other use than an enclosure for my goats; for the aversion which nature gave me to these hellish wretches was such, that I was as fearful of seeing them as of seeing the devil himself.
Sin embargo, sentía tal aborrecimiento por esos malditos salvajes que he mencionado y de su despreciable e inhumana costumbre de devorar a sus semejantes, que me que dé pensativo y triste y no me alejé de los predios de mi circuito en dos años. Cuando digo mi circuito, me refiero a mis tres fincas, es decir, mi castillo, mi casa de campo, a la que llamaba mi emparrado, y mi corral en el bosque.