A people remarkable for their simplicity and poverty, a free and martial people, who lived without any other industry than that of tending their flocks, and who had nothing but rush cottages to attach them to their lands, such a people, I say, must have followed their chiefs for the sake of booty, and not to pay or to raise taxes.
Herri sinple, libre, gerrari, artzainak, industriarik gabe bizi zirenak, eta lurrari ihizko etxolaz baizik lotzen ez zitzaizkionak, buruzagiei jarraitzen zitzaizkien ospila lortzeko, ez zergak ordaintzeko edo jasotzeko.