Having thus settled my affairs, sold my cargo, and turned all my effects into good bills of exchange, my next difficulty was which way to go to England: I had been accustomed enough to the sea, and yet I had a strange aversion to go to England by the sea at that time, and yet I could give no reason for it, yet the difficulty increased upon me so much, that though I had once shipped my baggage in order to go, yet I altered my mind, and that not once but two or three times.
Tras poner en orden mis negocios y convertir mis bienes en buenas letras de cambio, aún me faltaba decidir cómo llegar a Inglaterra. -Me había acostumbrado al mar pero, esta vez, sentía cierto recelo de regresar a Inglaterra por barco y, aunque no era capaz de explicar el porqué, la aversión fue aumentando de tal modo, que no una, sino dos o tres veces, cambié de parecer e hice desembarcar mi equipaje.