Being all met, and the captain with me, I caused the men to be brought before me, and I told them I had got a full account of their villainous behaviour to the captain, and how they had run away with the ship, and were preparing to commit further robberies, but that Providence had ensnared them in their own ways, and that they were fallen into the pit which they had dug for others.
Era meco il capitano, e tutti essendo convenuti, mostrai a costoro come fossi pienamente informato della ribalda loro condotta col capitano, del modo ond’erano fuggiti sul vascello rapitogli, e degli altri ladronecci e piraterie cui si stavano apparecchiando, se la Providenza non gli avesse fatti cadere negli stessi loro trabocchelli e in que’ precipizi ch’essi avevano scavati per altri.