_June_ 17.—I spent in cooking the turtle. I found in her three-score eggs; and her flesh was to me, at that time, the most savoury and pleasant that ever I tasted in my life, having had no flesh, but of goats and fowls, since I landed in this horrid place.
Le 17.--J'employai ce jour à faire cuire ma tortue: je trouvai dedans soixante œufs, et sa chair me parut la plus agréable et la plus savoureuse que j'eusse goûtée de ma vie, n'ayant eu d'autre viande que celle de chèvre ou d'oiseau depuis que j'avais abordé à cet horrible séjour.