It was, therefore, a very good providence to me that I had furnished myself with a tame breed of goats, and that I had no need to hunt any more about the woods, or shoot at them; and if I did catch any of them after this, it was by traps and snares, as I had done before; so that for two years after this I believe I never fired my gun once off, though I never went out without it; and what was more, as I had saved three pistols out of the ship, I always carried them out with me, or at least two of them, sticking them in my goat-skin belt.
Ha mégis el akartam ejteni egyet-egyet, csapdákat és hurkot használtam. Bár a legutóbbi szörnyű élményem óta újabb két év telt el és az alatt egyszer sem sütöttem el a fegyveremet, mégsem feledkeztem meg arról, hogy a puskán kívül még két pisztolyt vegyek magamhoz, ha elmentem hazulról.