For the Prisoners Hands only were in Chains, and not his Legs; so that his possibility of running away, having his Legs at liberty, concerned them to be circumspect and wakeful.

And they knew if he had escaped it were as much as their lives were worth.

By this crafty and kind way did the King correct the negligence of his white Soldiers.
[The King's Inclinations are towards white Men.] Indeed his inclinations are much towards the Europaeans; making them his great Officers, accounting them more faithful and trusty than his own People.

With these he often discourses concerning the Affairs of their Countreys, and promotes them to places far above their Ability, and sometimes their Degree or Desert.

[The colour of white honoured in this Land.] And indeed all over the Land they do bear as it were a natural respect and reverence to White Men, in as much as Black, they hold to be inferior to White.