I had once a mind to have gone to the Brazils and have settled myself there, for I was, as it were, naturalised to the place; but I had some little scruple in my mind about religion, which insensibly drew me back. However, it was not religion that kept me from going there for the present; and as I had made no scruple of being openly of the religion of the country all the while I was among them, so neither did I yet; only that, now and then, having of late thought more of it than formerly, when I began to think of living and dying among them, I began to regret having professed myself a Papist, and thought it might not be the best religion to die with.
J'eus une fois l'envie d'aller au Brésil et de m'y établir, car j'étais pour ainsi dire naturalisé dans cette contrée; mais il s'éveilla en mon esprit quelques petits scrupules religieux qui insensiblement me détachèrent de ce dessein, dont il sera reparlé tout-à-l'heure. Toutefois ce n'était pas la dévotion qui pour lors me retenait; comme je ne m'étais fait aucun scrupule de professer publiquement la religion du pays tout le temps que j'y avais séjourné, pourquoi ne l'eussé-je pas fait encore.