However, that we might be very secure, I told him he should go back again and choose out those five, and tell them, that they might see he did not want men, that he would take out those five to be his assistants, and that the governor would keep the other two, and the three that were sent prisoners to the castle (my cave), as hostages for the fidelity of those five; and that if they proved unfaithful in the execution, the five hostages should be hanged in chains alive on the shore.
Arra kértem a kapitányt, mondja az embereinek, hogy azokat a társaikat, akiket a szigorúbb őrizet alá helyeztünk, túszként ott tartjuk, és amennyiben a többiek engedetlennek bizonyulnak, a barlang foglyait haladéktalanul felkoncoljuk a tengerparton. Ez elég szigorú döntésnek tűnt és meggyőzhette a matrózokat arról, hogy a kormányzó nem tréfál.