This was a fair proposal, it must be confessed, had it been made to any one that had not had a settlement and a plantation of his own to look after, which was in a fair way of coming to be very considerable, and with a good stock upon it; but for me, that was thus entered and established, and had nothing to do but to go on as I had begun, for three or four years more, and to have sent for the other hundred pounds from England; and who in that time, and with that little addition, could scarce have failed of being worth three or four thousand pounds sterling, and that increasing too—for me to think of such a voyage was the most preposterous thing that ever man in such circumstances could be guilty of.
El kell ismernem, ez a tisztességes ajánlat bárki számára csábító lehetett, akinek nem volt gondozni való birtoka és ültetvénye, értékes terméssel tele, melytől az említett gazdaság éppen felvirágozni készült. Én viszont már megalapoztam itt a jövőmet, nem volt más feladatom, mint még három-négy éven át folytatni az eddigi teendőimet és elküldetni a maradék száz fontért Angliába.