The generous treatment the captain gave me I can never enough remember: he would take nothing of me for my passage, gave me twenty ducats for the leopard’s skin, and forty for the lion’s skin, which I had in my boat, and caused everything I had in the ship to be punctually delivered to me; and what I was willing to sell he bought of me, such as the case of bottles, two of my guns, and a piece of the lump of beeswax—for I had made candles of the rest: in a word, I made about two hundred and twenty pieces of eight of all my cargo; and with this stock I went on shore in the Brazils.
Il ne voulut rien recevoir pour mon passage; Il me donna vingt ducats pour la peau du léopard et quarante pour la peau du lion que j'avais dans ma chaloupe. Il me fit remettre ponctuellement tout ce qui m'appartenait en son vaisseau, et tout ce que j'étais disposé à vendre il me l'acheta: tel que le bahut aux bouteilles, deux de mes mousquets et un morceau restant du bloc de cire vierge, dont j'avais fait des chandelles.