The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly dried, and, indeed, were excellent good raisins of the sun; so I began to take them down from the trees, and it was very happy that I did so, for the rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best part of my winter food; for I had above two hundred large bunches of them.
Le 3.--Je trouvai les raisins que j'avais suspendus parfaitement secs; et, au fait, c'étaient d'excellentes passerilles; aussi me mis-je à les ôter de dessus les arbres; et ce fut très-heureux que j'eusse fait ainsi; car les pluies qui survinrent les auraient gâtés, et m'auraient fait perdre mes meilleures provisions d'hiver: j'en avais au moins deux cents belles grappes.