Having thus settled my affairs, sold my cargo, and turned all my effects into good bills of exchange, my next difficulty was which way to go to England: I had been accustomed enough to the sea, and yet I had a strange aversion to go to England by the sea at that time, and yet I could give no reason for it, yet the difficulty increased upon me so much, that though I had once shipped my baggage in order to go, yet I altered my mind, and that not once but two or three times.
A tengeri út nem jelentett volna újdonságot a számomra, mégis volt bennem némi kétely, ha arra gondoltam, hogy hajóval kell Angliába mennem. Ez a kétely aztán olyannyira megnőtt bennem, hogy indulás előtt többször is meggondoltam magam, egyszer úgy, hogy előtte már hajóra is rakattam a holmimat.