I hung my great sword, as usual, naked by my side, and gave Friday his hatchet. When I had thus prepared myself, I took my perspective glass, and went up to the side of the hill, to see what I could discover; and I found quickly by my glass that there were one-and-twenty savages, three prisoners, and three canoes; and that their whole business seemed to be the triumphant banquet upon these three human bodies: a barbarous feast, indeed! but nothing more than, as I had observed, was usual with them.
Quand je me fus ainsi préparé, je pris ma lunette d'approche et je gravis sur le versant de la montagne, pour voir ce que je pourrais découvrir; j'apperçus aussitôt par ma longue vue qu'il y avait là vingt-un Sauvages, trois prisonniers et trois pirogues, et que leur unique affaire semblait être de faire un banquet triomphal de ces trois corps humains, fête barbare, il est vrai, mais, comme je l'ai observé, qui n'avait rien parmi eux que d'ordinaire.