He confiscated all the playing cards in the colony, cut them up into pieces, wrote denominations on the pieces, signed them, and issued them to the soldiers as pay in lieu of gold and silver.
Zabavil všechny hrací karty v kolonii, rozřezal je na kusy, napsal hodnotu na každý kus, podepsal je a vydával je vojákům jako náhradu za zlato a stříbro.