Friday would fain have had me take one of their canoes, and pursue them; and indeed I was very anxious about their escape, lest, carrying the news home to their people, they should come back perhaps with two or three hundred of the canoes and devour us by mere multitude; so I consented to pursue them by sea, and running to one of their canoes, I jumped in and bade Friday follow me: but when I was in the canoe I was surprised to find another poor creature lie there, bound hand and foot, as the Spaniard was, for the slaughter, and almost dead with fear, not knowing what was the matter; for he had not been able to look up over the side of the boat, he was tied so hard neck and heels, and had been tied so long that he had really but little life in him.
Il désirait vivement que je prisse une de leurs pirogues et que je les poursuivisse; et, au fait, moi-même j'étais très-inquiet de leur fuite; je redoutais qu'ils ne portassent de mes nouvelles dans leur pays, et ne revinssent peut-être avec deux ou trois cents pirogues pour nous accabler par leur nombre. Je consentis donc à leur donner la chasse en mer, et courant à un de leurs canots, je m'y jetai et commandai à Vendredi de me suivre; mais en y entrant quelle fut ma surprise de trouver un pauvre Sauvage, étendu pieds et poings liés, destiné à la mort comme l'avait été l'Espagnol, et presque expirant de peur, ne sachant pas ce qui se passait car il n'avait pu regarder par-dessus le bord du bateau.