But I think I was never more vain of my own performance, or more joyful for anything I found out, than for my being able to make a tobacco-pipe; and though it was a very ugly, clumsy thing when it was done, and only burned red, like other earthenware, yet as it was hard and firm, and would draw the smoke, I was exceedingly comforted with it, for I had been always used to smoke; and there were pipes in the ship, but I forgot them at first, not thinking there was tobacco in the island; and afterwards, when I searched the ship again, I could not come at any pipes.
Quoique fort laide, fort grossière et en terre cuite rouge comme mes autres poteries, elle était cependant ferme et dure, et aspirait très-bien, ce dont j'éprouvai une excessive satisfaction, car j'avais toujours eu l'habitude de fumer. À bord de notre navire il se trouvait bien des pipes, mais j'avais premièrement négligé de les prendre, ne sachant pas qu'il y eût du tabac dans l'île, et plus tard, quand je refouillai le bâtiment, je ne pus mettre la main sur aucune.