However, considering the heat of the climate, I did not doubt but if I could find out any clay, I might make some pots that might, being dried in the sun, be hard enough and strong enough to bear handling, and to hold anything that was dry, and required to be kept so; and as this was necessary in the preparing corn, meal, &c., which was the thing I was doing, I resolved to make some as large as I could, and fit only to stand like jars, to hold what should be put into them.
De hitte van het klimaat echter deed mij denken, dat als ik slechts goede klei vond, ik wel eene pot daarvan zou kunnen vormen, die in de zon gedroogd, hard en sterk genoeg zou zijn om gehanteerd te worden en drooge goederen in te bewaren. Ik had die noodig voor koorn, vleesch, enz.