As long as I kept my daily tour to the hill, to look out, so long also I kept up the vigour of my design, and my spirits seemed to be all the while in a suitable frame for so outrageous an execution as the killing twenty or thirty naked savages, for an offence which I had not at all entered into any discussion of in my thoughts, any farther than my passions were at first fired by the horror I conceived at the unnatural custom of the people of that country, who, it seems, had been suffered by Providence, in His wise disposition of the world, to have no other guide than that of their own abominable and vitiated passions; and consequently were left, and perhaps had been so for some ages, to act such horrid things, and receive such dreadful customs, as nothing but nature, entirely abandoned by Heaven, and actuated by some hellish degeneracy, could have run them into.
Mialatt rendszeresen eljártam a hegyre, folyton elevenen tartottam magamban a tervet, hogy végzek húsz-harminc bennszülöttel, akiknek a kegyetlensége annyira felbőszített, hogy azóta kétely sem merült fel bennem a tervem jogosságát illetően. Holott jobban belegondolva, nem puszta kedvtelésből folytatták e természetellenes gyakorlatot, hanem sokkal inkább a saját természetes ösztöneiktől hajtva.