As in my present condition there were not really many things which I wanted, so indeed I thought that the frights I had been in about these savage wretches, and the concern I had been in for my own preservation, had taken off the edge of my invention, for my own conveniences; and I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
Divisamenti or d’un modo or d’un altro dopo la scoperta fatta. Poichè nella presente mia condizione non erano invero molti i bisogni di cui dovessi inquietarmi, credo da vero che lo spavento datomi da quegli sgraziati selvaggi, e le cure presemi per non cadere nelle loro mani avessero reso alquanto ottuso l’acume del mio ingegno inventivo nel crearmi nuovi comodi della vita.