I was sadly put to it for a scythe or sickle to cut it down, and all I could do was to make one, as well as I could, out of one of the broadswords, or cutlasses, which I saved among the arms out of the ship.
Mi trovai intrigato per la mancanza di una falce o falciuola; pur me ne feci una alla meglio di una vecchia spaduccia salvata in mezzo ad altre armi dal naufragio del vascello.