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.
E per aumentare questa piacevolezza, il mio capitano mi presentò un giovine inglese figlio di un trafficante di Lisbona, che era desideroso di fare il viaggio in mia compagnia; dopo di che inducemmo ad essere di brigata con noi due altri negozianti inglesi e due giovani gentiluomini portoghesi, il secondo de’ quali veniva solamente a Parigi: in tutto sei padroni e cinque servitori, perchè i due negozianti e i due Portoghesi si contentarono d’un servo per ogni due a fine di spendere meno. Quanta a me presi al mio servigio durante il viaggio un piloto inglese, oltre al mio fedele Venerdì, troppo estranio agli usi d’Europa per poter sostenere solo questa parte lungo il cammino.