However, as I found there was no laying them up on heaps, and no carrying them away in a sack, but that one way they would be destroyed, and the other way they would be crushed with their own weight, I took another course; for I gathered a large quantity of the grapes, and hung upon the out-branches of the trees, that they might cure and dry in the sun; and as for the limes and lemons, I carried as many back as I could well stand under.
Pigliai ad un altro espediente; raccosi cioè una grande quantità di grappoli attaccandoli ai rami degli alberi e lasciandoli ivi tanto che si stagionassero e seccassero al sole. Circa ai limoni, ne portai via tutto quel numero sotto il cui peso fui buono a reggere.