In a word, I was so prepossessed against my going by sea at all, except from Calais to Dover, that I resolved to travel all the way by land; which, as I was not in haste, and did not value the charge, was by much the pleasanter way: and to make it more so, my old captain brought an English gentleman, the son of a merchant in Lisbon, who was willing to travel with me; after which we picked up two more English merchants also, and two young Portuguese gentlemen, the last going to Paris only; so that in all there were six of us and five servants; the two merchants and the two Portuguese, contenting themselves with one servant between two, to save the charge; and as for me, I got an English sailor to travel with me as a servant, besides my man Friday, who was too much a stranger to be capable of supplying the place of a servant on the road.
Társaságom is akadt, a kapitány barátom ugyanis beszélt egy angol úriemberrel, egy Lisszabonban élő kereskedő fiával, aki hajlandó volt útitársamul szegődni. Rajta kívül aztán még többen is jelentkeztek: két angol kereskedő és két fiatal portugál úriember, akik Párizsba tartottak.