He told me they had some arms with them, but they were perfectly useless, for that they had neither powder nor ball, the washing of the sea having spoiled all their powder but a little, which they used at their first landing to provide themselves with some food.
Mi raccontò che avevano seco alcune armi, ma di nessun uso, perchè mancavano di palle e di polvere che l’acqua del mare avea fatta andar a male tutta, eccetto una piccolissima partita, di cui si giovarono ne’ primi giorni del loro sbarco per procacciarsi da vivere.