It was, therefore, a very good providence to me that I had furnished myself with a tame breed of goats, and that I had no need to hunt any more about the woods, or shoot at them; and if I did catch any of them after this, it was by traps and snares, as I had done before; so that for two years after this I believe I never fired my gun once off, though I never went out without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I always carried them out with me, or at least two of them, sticking them in my goat-skin belt.
Si par la suite j'attrapai encore quelques chèvres, ce ne fut qu'au moyen de trappes et de traquenards; car je restai bien deux ans sans tirer une seule fois mon mousquet, quoique je ne sortisse jamais sans cette arme. Des trois pistolets que j'avais sauvés du navire, j'en portais toujours au moins deux à ma ceinture de peau de chèvre.