I could not tell what part of the world this might be, otherwise than that I knew it must be part of America, and, as I concluded by all my observations, must be near the Spanish dominions, and perhaps was all inhabited by savages, where, if I had landed, I had been in a worse condition than I was now; and therefore I acquiesced in the dispositions of Providence, which I began now to own and to believe ordered everything for the best; I say I quieted my mind with this, and left off afflicting myself with fruitless wishes of being there.
D'après toutes mes observations, je conclus qu'elle confinait aux possessions espagnoles, qu'elle était sans doute toute habitée par des Sauvages, et que si j'y eusse abordé, j'aurais eu à subir un sort pire que n'était le mien. J'acquiesçai donc aux dispositions de la Providence, qui, je commençais à le reconnaître et à le croire, ordonne chaque chose pour le mieux.