I had also several tame sea-fowls, whose name I knew not, that I caught upon the shore, and cut their wings; and the little stakes which I had planted before my castle-wall being now grown up to a good thick grove, these fowls all lived among these low trees, and bred there, which was very agreeable to me; so that, as I said above, I began to be very well contented with the life I led, if I could have been secured from the dread of the savages.
Igaz, tanításukkal sem bíbelődtem annyit. Volt még néhány tengeri madaram - előttem ismeretlen fajtájúak -, melyek fiókák voltak, mikor rabul ejtettem őket, később, mikor megtollasodtak, lenyírtam a szárnyaikat s nagyon hozzám szoktak.