I have mentioned that I saved the skins of all the creatures that I killed, I mean four-footed ones, and I had them hung up, stretched out with sticks in the sun, by which means some of them were so dry and hard that they were fit for little, but others were very useful.
Dissi già ch’io era solito conservare le pelli de’ quadrupedi da me uccisi; io le attaccava stese sopra pali affinchè si seccassero al sole, per la quale operazione alcune divenivano sì dure che poteano ben servire a poco; ma altre ne trovai di grand’uso.