He said I might do so if I pleased, but that if I did not, there were ways enough to secure my right, and immediately to appropriate the profits to my use: and as there were ships in the river of Lisbon just ready to go away to Brazil, he made me enter my name in a public register, with his affidavit, affirming, upon oath, that I was alive, and that I was the same person who took up the land for the planting the said plantation at first.
Lisszabonból most is több hajó készült útra kelni Brazíliába. Azt javasolta, hogy vétessem nyilvántartásba a nevem, az ő eskü alatt tett írásbeli nyilatkozata mellett, mely igazolja, hogy ugyanaz az ültetvényes vagyok, aki annak idején üzleti útra indulva hagyta el Brazíliát.