I had also several tame sea-fowls, whose name I knew not, that I caught upon the shore, and cut their wings; and the little stakes which I had planted before my castle-wall being now grown up to a good thick grove, these fowls all lived among these low trees, and bred there, which was very agreeable to me; so that, as I said above, I began to be very well contented with the life I led, if I could have been secured from the dread of the savages.
Les petits pieux que j'avais plantés en avant de la muraille de mon château étant devenus un bocage épais et touffu, ces oiseaux y nichaient et y pondaient parmi les arbrisseaux, ce qui était fort agréable pour moi. En résumé, comme je le disais tantôt, j'aurais été fort content de la vie que je menais si elle n'avait point été troublée par la crainte des Sauvages.