So I discoursed that point with my governess, and she went and waited upon the captain, and told him that she hoped ways might be found out for her two unfortunate cousins, as she called us, to obtain our freedom when we came into the country, and so entered into a discourse with him about the means and terms also, of which I shall say more in its place; and after thus sounding the captain, she let him know, though we were unhappy in the circumstances that occasioned our going, yet that we were not unfurnished to set ourselves to work in the country, and we resolved to settle and live there as planters, if we might be put in a way how to do it.
Je parlai à ce sujet avec ma gouvernante, et elle alla trouver le capitaine, à qui elle dit qu'elle espérait qu'on pourrait trouver moyen d'obtenir la liberté de ses deux malheureux cousins, comme elle nous appelait, quand nous serions arrivés par delà la mer; puis s'enquit de lui quelles choses il était nécessaire d'emporter avec nous, et lui, en homme d'expérience, lui répondit: