We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the vessel, and with eight hundred I ransomed myself, giving the money to a Valencian merchant who happened to be in Algiers at the time, and who had me released on his word, pledging it that on the arrival of the first ship from Valencia he would pay my ransom; for if he had given the money at once it would have made the king suspect that my ransom money had been for a long time in Algiers, and that the merchant had for his own advantage kept it secret.
»Dimos luego quinientos escudos al renegado para comprar la barca; con ochocientos me rescaté yo, dando el dinero a un mercader valenciano que a la sazón se hallaba en Argel, el cual me rescató del rey, tomándome sobre su palabra, dándola de que con el primer bajel que viniese de Valencia pagaría mi rescate; porque si luego diera el dinero, fuera dar sospechas al rey que había muchos días que mi rescate estaba en Argel, y que el mercader, por sus granjerías, lo había callado.