I could not tell what part of the world this might be, otherwise than that I knew it must be part of America, and, as I concluded by all my observations, must be near the Spanish dominions, and perhaps was all inhabited by savages, where, if I had landed, I had been in a worse condition than I was now; and therefore I acquiesced in the dispositions of Providence, which I began now to own and to believe ordered everything for the best; I say I quieted my mind with this, and left off afflicting myself with fruitless wishes of being there.
El nem képzelhettem, milyen más része lehet ez a világnak, mint Amerika, annak is alighanem a spanyol fennhatóság alá tartozó része, amelyet azonban vademberek laknak, és így ott sokkal rosszabb helyzetben lennék, mint itt, a szigetemen. Így most már végképp elismertem, hogy hálával tartozom a gondviselésnek, amiért így rendezett el mindent.