I let them know that by my direction the ship had been seized; that she lay now in the road; and they might see by-and-by that their new captain had received the reward of his villainy, and that they would see him hanging at the yard-arm; that, as to them, I wanted to know what they had to say why I should not execute them as pirates taken in the fact, as by my commission they could not doubt but I had authority so to do.
Ik zeide hun, dat men op mijn bevel zich van het schip verzekerd had, dat nu op de reede lag, en dat zij zien konden hoe hun nieuwe kapitein de belooning voor zijn verraderij had bekomen, want dat zij hem aan den nok van de ra konden zien hangen. Dat ik thans verlangde te weten of zij iets hadden bij te brengen, waarom ik hen niet, als zeeroovers, op heeterdaad betrapt, ter dood zou doen brengen, waartoe mijne aanstelling mij ontwijfelbaar regt gaf.