It was now harvest, and our crop in good order: it was not the most plentiful increase I had seen in the island, but, however, it was enough to answer our end; for from twenty-two bushels of barley we brought in and thrashed out above two hundred and twenty bushels; and the like in proportion of the rice; which was store enough for our food to the next harvest, though all the sixteen Spaniards had been on shore with me; or, if we had been ready for a voyage, it would very plentifully have victualled our ship to have carried us to any part of the world; that is to say, any part of America.
Venuto il tempo della mietitura, il nostro ricolto era in buono stato: non dirò il più abbondante ch’io m’abbia fatto nell’isola, ma bastante per corrispondere alle mie mire; perchè di ventidue moggia d’orzo che avevamo seminate, nè tirammo a casa e trebbiammo duecento venti circa; e lo stesso in proporzione si dica del riso: provvigione oltre al bisogno del nostro sostentamento quand’anche in quel punto avessi avuti i sedici Spagnuoli sopra la spiaggia; o bastantissima, se fossimo stati lesti per imbarcarci, a vettovagliare il nostro legno per condurci in qualunque parte del mondo, intendo dell’America.