I had also several tame sea-fowls, whose name I knew not, that I caught upon the shore, and cut their wings; and the little stakes which I had planted before my castle-wall being now grown up to a good thick grove, these fowls all lived among these low trees, and bred there, which was very agreeable to me; so that, as I said above, I began to be very well contented with the life I led, if I could have been secured from the dread of the savages.
I sottili pali ch’io aveva piantati dinanzi alla mia fortezza erano cresciuti al grado di formare un bel folto boschetto; questi uccelli vivevano svolazzando fra que’ bassi arbusti e vi faceano i loro nidi, che era una delizia per me. In somma, come ho notato altra volta, io avrei cominciato propriamente a dirmi un uomo contento, se avessi potuto guarentirmi dal timore dei selvaggi.