As for my cats, they multiplied, as I have observed, to that degree that I was obliged to shoot several of them at first, to keep them from devouring me and all I had; but at length, when the two old ones I brought with me were gone, and after some time continually driving them from me, and letting them have no provision with me, they all ran wild into the woods, except two or three favourites, which I kept tame, and whose young, when they had any, I always drowned; and these were part of my family.
Quant à mes chats, ils multiplièrent, comme je l'ai dit, et à un tel point que je fus d'abord obligé d'en tuer plusieurs pour les empêcher de me dévorer moi et tout ce que j'avais. Mais enfin, après la mort des deux vieux que j'avais apportés du navire, les ayant pendant quelque temps continuellement chassés et laissés sans nourriture, ils s'enfuirent touts dans les bois et devinrent sauvages, excepté deux ou trois favoris que je gardai auprès de moi.