This was a surprising discovery, and I was exceeding glad of them; but I was warned by my experience to eat sparingly of them; remembering that when I was ashore in Barbary, the eating of grapes killed several of our Englishmen, who were slaves there, by throwing them into fluxes and fevers.
Fu questa una sorprendente scoperta che mi empiè di giubilo, benchè andassi assai cauto nel profittarne. L’esperienza mi aveva insegnato a mangiarne parcamente, ricordandomi tuttora come, allorchè mi trovai su le spiagge di Barbaria, il cibarsi d’uva fosse cagione di morte a molti de’ nostri Inglesi schiavi colà e per effetto dell’uve stesse colpiti da flussi e da febbre.