After these ceremonies were past, and after all his good things were brought into my little apartment, we began to consult what was to be done with the prisoners we had; for it was worth considering whether we might venture to take them with us or no, especially two of them, whom he knew to be incorrigible and refractory to the last degree; and the captain said he knew they were such rogues that there was no obliging them, and if he did carry them away, it must be in irons, as malefactors, to be delivered over to justice at the first English colony he could come to; and I found that the captain himself was very anxious about it. Upon this, I told him that, if he desired it, I would undertake to bring the two men he spoke of to make it their own request that he should leave them upon the island.
Après ces cérémonies, et quand toutes ces bonnes choses furent transportées dans mon petit logement, nous commençâmes à nous consulter sur ce que nous avions à faire de nos prisonniers; car il était important de considérer si nous pouvions ou non risquer de les prendre avec nous, surtout les deux d'entre eux que nous savions être incorrigibles et intraitables au dernier degré. Le capitaine me dit qu'il les connaissait pour des vauriens tels qu'il n'y avait pas à les domter, et que s'il les emmenait, ce ne pourrait être que dans les fers, comme des malfaiteurs, afin de les livrer aux mains de la justice à la première colonie anglaise qu'il atteindrait.