In return, I signed the instrument of sale in the form which they sent from Lisbon, and sent it to my old man, who sent me the bills of exchange for thirty-two thousand eight hundred pieces of eight for the estate, reserving the payment of one hundred moidores a year to him (the old man) during his life, and fifty moidores afterwards to his son for his life, which I had promised them, and which the plantation was to make good as a rent-charge.
A két férfi elfogadta az ajánlatot, és megbízták a lisszaboni képviselőjüket, hogy fizessen érte harmincháromezer spanyol aranyat, amiből miután öreg barátom levonta a neki és fiának ígért járadékot, harminckétezer-nyolcszáz spanyol aranyat juttatott el hozzám.