Having settled this between ourselves, we called him to let him know what we had resolved.

I told him he had complained of our being willing to let him go back alone, and I was now about to tell him we designed he should not go back at all.
That as we had resolved to go to Europe with the caravan, we were very willing he should go with us; and that we called him to know his mind.

He shook his head and said it was a long journey, and that he had no _pecune_ to carry him thither, or to subsist himself when he came there.
We told him we believed it was so, and therefore we had resolved to do something for him that should let him see how sensible we were of the service he had done us, and also how agreeable he was to us: and then I told him what we had resolved to give him here, which he might lay out as we would do our own; and that as for his charges, if he would go with us we would set him safe on shore (life and casualties excepted), either in Muscovy or England, as he would choose, at our own charge, except only the carriage of his goods.

He received the proposal like a man transported, and told us he would go with us over all the whole world; and so we all prepared for our journey.

However, as it was with us, so it was with the other merchants: they had many things to do, and instead of being ready in five weeks, it was four months and some days before all things were got together..