This evening I renewed the medicine, which I had supposed did me good the day before—the tobacco steeped in rum; only I did not take so much as before, nor did I chew any of the leaf, or hold my head over the smoke; however, I was not so well the next day, which was the first of July, as I hoped I should have been; for I had a little spice of the cold fit, but it was not much.
Uccisi due uccelli di mare, somiglianti alcun poco ad oche salvatiche; me li portai a casa, ma non ebbi fretta di cibarmene, onde mangiai solamente non so quante uova di testuggine che trovai eccellenti. La sera rinnovai la mia medicina che supposi avermi giovato il dì innanzi, quella cioè del tabacco in infusione; solamente non ne presi tanto quanto l’altra volta, nè masticai veruna foglia di esso o tenni la mia testa sopra il suo fumo.