As the ship lay almost two leagues from the shore, we had a full view of them as they came, and a plain sight even of their faces; because the tide having set them a little to the east of the other boat, they rowed up under shore, to come to the same place where the other had landed, and where the boat lay; by this means, I say, we had a full view of them, and the captain knew the persons and characters of all the men in the boat, of whom, he said, there were three very honest fellows, who, he was sure, were led into this conspiracy by the rest, being over-powered and frightened; but that as for the boatswain, who it seems was the chief officer among them, and all the rest, they were as outrageous as any of the ship’s crew, and were no doubt made desperate in their new enterprise; and terribly apprehensive he was that they would be too powerful for us.
Daar het schip bijkans twee mijlen van den wal aflag, hadden wij een goed gezigt van hen toen zij aankwamen, en wij konden zelfs hunne gelaatstrekken duidelijk zien, omdat, daar het getij hen een weinig oostelijk medegesleept had, zij onder het strand heenroeiden, om op dezelfde plaats, waar de andere boot lag, te landen. Hierdoor, zeide ik, konden wij hen duidelijk zien, en de kapitein, die al de personen en hun karakter kende, zeide, dat er drie brave knapen onder hen waren, die, hiervan was hij zeker, door de overigen door bedreigingen tot de zamenspanning gedwongen waren; maar dat de bootsman, die naar het scheen hun opperhoofd was, en al de overigen zoo slecht waren als het verdere scheepsvolk, en ongetwijfeld in hunnen aanslag zouden volharden.