But to prevent this I cut it with my knife upon a large post, in capital letters, and making it into a great cross I set it up on the shore where I first landed, viz. I came on shore here on the 30th of Sept. 1659.

• 为了防止发生这种情况,我便用刀子在一根大柱子上用大写字母刻上以下一句句子："我于一六五九年九月三十日在此上岸。我把柱子做成一个大十字架,立在我第一次上岸的地方。