It would take up a larger volume than this whole work is intended to be to set down all the contrivances I hatched, or rather brooded upon, in my thoughts, for the destroying these creatures, or at least frightening them so as to prevent their coming hither any more: but all this was abortive; nothing could be possible to take effect, unless I was to be there to do it myself: and what could one man do among them, when perhaps there might be twenty or thirty of them together with their darts, or their bows and arrows, with which they could shoot as true to a mark as I could with my gun?
Terveim nagyobb szabásúak voltak, mint maga az elvégzendő feladat, de ahhoz, hogy valóban elrémítsem őket vagy végezzek néhányukkal, mindenféle tervtől függetlenül, szembe kellett volna szállnom velük. De mire juthattam egymagam húsz-harminc fenevaddal szemben, akik mérges nyilaikkal vagy dárdáikkal éppolyan biztosan céloznak, mint én a puskámmal?