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.
Che buon consiglio per tanto fu il mio l’allevarmi una razza di capre domestiche! perchè mi dispensava dall’andar più a caccia pe’ boschi o dallo scaricare la mia arma da fuoco contro a verun animale. Di fatto, se dopo di ciò ne ho avuto qualcuno in mio potere, me lo procacciai con trappole e trabocchelli, come aveva già fatto altra volta; laonde per due anni in appresso credo di non avere sparato il mio moschetto una sola volta, se bene non andassi mai attorno senza di esso.