The rainy season of the autumnal equinox was now come, and I kept the 30th of September in the same solemn manner as before, being the anniversary of my landing on the island, having now been there two years, and no more prospect of being delivered than the first day I came there, I spent the whole day in humble and thankful acknowledgments of the many wonderful mercies which my solitary condition was attended with, and without which it might have been infinitely more miserable.
Correa già il secondo anno da che io mi trovava qui, nè aveva migliori speranze d’uscirne ch’io non ebbi nel primo giorno. Impiegai l’intera giornata in umili affettuosi ringraziamenti al Signore per tanti prodigi di misericordia versati su la mia solitudine, prodigi senza de’ quali essa sarebbe stata infinitamente più miserabile.