It was an inexpressible joy to me, which any one will believe, that I was thus delivered, as I esteemed it, from such a miserable and almost hopeless condition as I was in; and I immediately offered all I had to the captain of the ship, as a return for my deliverance; but he generously told me he would take nothing from me, but that all I had should be delivered safe to me when I came to the Brazils.
Kimondhatatlan örömömre szolgált, hogy a sanyarú, szinte kilátástalan helyzetemet követően ilyen megbecsüléssel fogadtak. Hálából, amint elmúlt a megindultságom, felajánlottam minden ingóságomat a hajó kapitányának.