Accordingly, in the afternoon the captain came, and we found him the same courteous, obliging man that the boatswain had represented him to be; and he was so well pleased with my husband's conversation, that, in short, he would not let us keep the cabin we had chosen, but gave us one that, as I said before, opened into the great cabin. Nor were his conditions exorbitant, or the man craving and eager to make a prey of us, but for fifteen guineas we had our whole passage and provisions and cabin, ate at the captain's table, and were very handsomely entertained.
En effet, l'après-midi le capitaine arriva, et nous trouvâmes que c'était bien l'homme obligeant que nous avait représenté le bosseman et il fut si charmé de la conversation de mon mari qu'en somme il ne voulut point nous laisser garder la cabine que nous avions choisie, mais nous en donna une qui, ainsi que je l'ai dit avant, ouvrait dans la grande cabine, et ses conditions ne furent point exorbitantes: ce n'était point un homme avide de faire de nous sa proie, mais pour quinze guinées nous eûmes tout, notre passage et nos provisions, repas à table du capitaine et fort bravement entretenus.