These considerations really put me to a pause, and to a kind of a full stop; and I began by little and little to be off my design, and to conclude I had taken wrong measures in my resolution to attack the savages; and that it was not my business to meddle with them, unless they first attacked me; and this it was my business, if possible, to prevent: but that, if I were discovered and attacked by them, I knew my duty.
Ezen megfontolások alapján lassanként kezdtem belátni, hogy helytelen volt a bennszülöttek megtámadása mellett dönteni, mert az önvédelmen kívül erre más okom nem nagyon lehetne. De védekeznem csak akkor kell, ha felfedem magam előttük, például úgy, hogy rájuk támadok.