On the other hand, I argued with myself that this really was the way not to deliver myself, but entirely to ruin and destroy myself; for unless I was sure to kill every one that not only should be on shore at that time, but that should ever come on shore afterwards, if but one of them escaped to tell their country-people what had happened, they would come over again by thousands to revenge the death of their fellows, and I should only bring upon myself a certain destruction, which, at present, I had no manner of occasion for.
Ilyen szempontból a támadással leginkább a magam pusztulását segíteném elő. Mindegyiküket úgysem irthatnám ki, s ha csak egyetlenegy is megszabadul közülük: bizony a nyakamra hoz egy egész törzset, és végül a kannibálok bosszújának áldozatául esem.