Having thus settled my affairs, sold my cargo, and turned all my effects into good bills of exchange, my next difficulty was which way to go to England: I had been accustomed enough to the sea, and yet I had a strange aversion to go to England by the sea at that time, and yet I could give no reason for it, yet the difficulty increased upon me so much, that though I had once shipped my baggage in order to go, yet I altered my mind, and that not once but two or three times.
Hoezeer ik ook aan de zee gewoon was, had ik toen een sterken tegenzin om ter zee naar Engeland te gaan. Schoon ik er geene reden voor had, werd deze tegenzin zoo sterk, dat toen mijne bagaadje reeds aan boord was, ik nog van gedachten veranderde, en dat wel niet eens maar twee- of driemalen.