But though to me and my comrades it had seemed a better plan to send to Majorca for the vessel, as the Moorish lady suggested, we did not dare to oppose him, fearing that if we did not do as he said he would denounce us, and place us in danger of losing all our lives if he were to disclose our dealings with Zoraida, for whose life we would have all given our own.
»Y, puesto que a mí y a mis camaradas nos había parecido mejor lo de enviar por la barca a Mallorca, como la mora decía, no osamos contradecirle, temerosos que, si no hacíamos lo que él decía, nos había de descubrir y poner a peligro de perder las vidas, si descubriese el trato de Zoraida, por cuya vida diéramos todos las nuestras.