It would take up a larger volume than this whole work is intended to be to set down all the contrivances I hatched, or rather brooded upon, in my thoughts, for the destroying these creatures, or at least frightening them so as to prevent their coming hither any more: but all this was abortive; nothing could be possible to take effect, unless I was to be there to do it myself: and what could one man do among them, when perhaps there might be twenty or thirty of them together with their darts, or their bows and arrows, with which they could shoot as true to a mark as I could with my gun?
Ma tutti questi erano aborti; niuno di tali disegni poteva avverarsi, finchè fossi stato qui io solo per mandarlo ad effetto. Che cosa un uomo poteva fare contro essi, che sarebbero forse stati in venti o trenta uniti insieme, che co’ loro dardi o con le loro frecce miravano giusto al segno, come avrei potuto far io col mio moschetto.