In the next place, I had no hops to make it keep, no yeast to make it work, no copper or kettle to make it boil; and yet with all these things wanting, I verily believe, had not the frights and terrors I was in about the savages intervened, I had undertaken it, and perhaps brought it to pass too; for I seldom gave anything over without accomplishing it, when once I had it in my head to began it.
Doveva ben vedere ad una prima occhiata come delle cose necessarie a fabbricare la birra me ne mancassero tante in quest’isola, che mi sarebbe stato impossibile di supplire a tal uopo. Primieramente mi mancavano botti per conservarla, suppellettile che, come notai altrove, non ho mai potuto arrivare a mettere insieme, ad onta di giorni, di settimane, di mesi impiegati in prove per averne, ma sempre indarno.