When the settled season began to come in, as the thought of my design returned with the fair weather, I was preparing daily for the voyage. And the first thing I did was to lay by a certain quantity of provisions, being the stores for our voyage; and intended in a week or a fortnight’s time to open the dock, and launch out our boat.
Mentre la bella stagione cominciava a mostrarsi e con essa ad ingagliardirsi i divisamenti della mia andata, io ne faceva gli apparecchi ogni giorno; e per prima cosa andava mettendo in disparte una certa quantità di provvigioni che dovevano essere le vettovaglie del nostro viaggio.