How they were to have done this, when I knew they had neither pen nor ink, was a question which we never asked. Under these instructions, the Spaniard and the old savage, the father of Friday, went away in one of the canoes which they might be said to have come in, or rather were brought in, when they came as prisoners to be devoured by the savages.
Mindezt írásba is kellett foglalniuk és aláírásukkal hitelesíteniük, de hogy mindennek hogyan tesznek eleget, arról egyikünk sem szólt, bár tudtam, hogy sem tolluk, sem tintájuk nincs. Ezzel a spanyol és Péntek apja, az idős indián útnak indult az egyik kenuban, amellyel idehozták őket.