I went so far with it in my imagination that I employed myself several days to find out proper places to put myself in ambuscade, as I said, to watch for them, and I went frequently to the place itself, which was now grown more familiar to me; but while my mind was thus filled with thoughts of revenge and a bloody putting twenty or thirty of them to the sword, as I may call it, the horror I had at the place, and at the signals of the barbarous wretches devouring one another, abetted my malice.
De bármennyire is fűtött a bosszú és vágytam kardélre hányni közülük húszat-harmincat, a borzadály, amely a helyszínen a kannibál lakomák maradványainak láttán rám tört, elapasztotta vérszomjas kedvemet. Végül találtam egy alkalmas helyet a hegyoldalban, ahol biztonságban figyelhettem, mikor közelednek a csónakjaikon.