Accordingly, we went on board, took the arms which were left on board out of her, and whatever else we found there—which was a bottle of brandy, and another of rum, a few biscuit-cakes, a horn of powder, and a great lump of sugar in a piece of canvas (the sugar was five or six pounds): all which was very welcome to me, especially the brandy and sugar, of which I had had none left for many years.
Detto fatto! Venuti alla scialuppa ne levammo l’armi che v’erano state lasciate entro, e quant’altre minuzie vi ritrovammo; cioè un fiaschetto d’acquavite, uno di rum, una piccola provvigione di biscotto, un fiaschetto di polvere, un gran pane di zucchero del peso di cinque libbre, avvolto in un pezzo di canovaccio, tutte cose capitate in buon punto per me, massime l’acquavite e lo zucchero, di cui non vedeva da molti anni il vestigio.