After a few days’ further conference with this ancient friend, he brought me an account of the first six years’ income of my plantation, signed by my partner and the merchant-trustees, being always delivered in goods, viz. tobacco in roll, and sugar in chests, besides rum, molasses, &c., which is the consequence of a sugar-work; and I found by this account, that every year the income considerably increased; but, as above, the disbursements being large, the sum at first was small: however, the old man let me see that he was debtor to me four hundred and seventy moidores of gold, besides sixty chests of sugar and fifteen double rolls of tobacco, which were lost in his ship; he having been shipwrecked coming home to Lisbon, about eleven years after my having the place.
E di fatto in termine a pochi giorni questo vecchio amico mi presentò il conto delle rendite della mia piantagione ne’ primi sei anni, sottoscritto dal mio socio e dai due fidecommissari. Queste gli erano state pagate in merci, vale a dire tabacco in rotoli, zucchero in casse, oltre ad una partita di rum, di melassa (residuo di zucchero raffinato) e simili produzioni della fabbrica dello zucchero.