The 3rd of August, I found the grapes I had hung up perfectly dried, and, indeed, were excellent good raisins of the sun; so I began to take them down from the trees, and it was very happy that I did so, for the rains which followed would have spoiled them, and I had lost the best part of my winter food; for I had above two hundred large bunches of them. No sooner had I taken them all down, and carried the most of them home to my cave, than it began to rain; and from hence, which was the 14th of August, it rained, more or less, every day till the middle of October; and sometimes so violently, that I could not stir out of my cave for several days.
Den 3 Augustus vond ik dat de druiven, die ik opgehangen had, volkomen gedroogd door de zon en zeer goede rozijnen geworden waren. Ik begon ze dus af te nemen en te goeder ure, want de regen zou ze anders spoedig bedorven en mij van het beste deel van mijn wintervoorraad beroofd hebben; want ik had meer dan tweehonderd trossen, die ik naauwelijks had afgenomen of het begon te regenen, en van den 14 Augustus tot het midden van October, had ik elken dag meer of minder regen; somtijds zoo zwaar, dat ik verscheidene dagen mijn kelder niet verlaten kon.