Sometimes I thought if digging a hole under the place where they made their fire, and putting in five or six pounds of gunpowder, which, when they kindled their fire, would consequently take fire, and blow up all that was near it: but as, in the first place, I should be unwilling to waste so much powder upon them, my store being now within the quantity of one barrel, so neither could I be sure of its going off at any certain time, when it might surprise them; and, at best, that it would do little more than just blow the fire about their ears and fright them, but not sufficient to make them forsake the place: so I laid it aside; and then proposed that I would place myself in ambush in some convenient place, with my three guns all double-loaded, and in the middle of their bloody ceremony let fly at them, when I should be sure to kill or wound perhaps two or three at every shot; and then falling in upon them with my three pistols and my sword, I made no doubt but that, if there were twenty, I should kill them all.
Ook was ik niet zeker, dat het op zijn tijd ontvlammen zou, en misschien zou het hen slechts wat aarde om de ooren doen vliegen, maar niet genoeg verschrikken om hen de plaats te doen verlaten. Op een anderen tijd wilde ik met mijne drie geweren, allen dubbel geladen, in hinderlaag gaan liggen, en als zij midden in hun bloeddorstig werk waren, op hen vuur geven; ik was zeker, twee of drie hunner met elk schot te dooden of te kwetsen, en ik twijfelde niet of met behulp van mijne sabel, zou ik ze allen ombrengen, al waren er twintig.