Here I meditated nothing but my escape, and what method I might take to effect it, but found no way that had the least probability in it; nothing presented to make the supposition of it rational; for I had nobody to communicate it to that would embark with me—no fellow-slave, no Englishman, Irishman, or Scotchman there but myself; so that for two years, though I often pleased myself with the imagination, yet I never had the least encouraging prospect of putting it in practice.
Eközben az eszem szüntelen a szökésen járt, megpróbáltam kitalálni a megfelelő módját, de egyik sem tűnt lehetségesnek. Nem volt senkim, akire a terveimet bízhattam és aki segíthetett volna.