As for my cats, they multiplied, as I have observed, to that degree that I was obliged to shoot several of them at first, to keep them from devouring me and all I had; but at length, when the two old ones I brought with me were gone, and after some time continually driving them from me, and letting them have no provision with me, they all ran wild into the woods, except two or three favourites, which I kept tame, and whose young, when they had any, I always drowned; and these were part of my family.
Ami a macskáimat illeti, mint mondtam már, olyan mértékben elszaporodtak, hogy kártevő viselkedésük miatt egy ideig irtanom kellett őket. A többi aztán az erdőkbe menekült, a két öreg kimúlt, és csak két-három szelíd kedvencem maradt velem.