In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old captain brought an English gentleman, the son of a merchant in Lisbon, who was willing to travel with me; after which we picked up two more English merchants also, and two young Portuguese gentlemen, the last going to Paris only; so that in all there were six of us and five servants; the two merchants and the two Portuguese, contenting themselves with one servant between two, to save the charge; and as for me, I got an English sailor to travel with me as a servant, besides my man Friday, who was too much a stranger to be capable of supplying the place of a servant on the road.
Nous étions en tout six maîtres et cinq serviteurs, les deux marchands et les deux Portugais se contentant d'un valet pour deux, afin de sauver la dépense. Quant à moi, pour le voyage je m'étais attaché un matelot anglais comme domestique, outre VENDREDI, qui était trop étranger pour m'en tenir lieu durant la route.