After this, I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella; I was, indeed, in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brazils, where they are very useful in the great heats there, and I felt the heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the equinox; besides, as I was obliged to be much abroad, it was a most useful thing to me, as well for the rains as the heats.
Daarna besteedde ik veel tijd en arbeid, om mij een zonnescherm te maken; ik had er een hoog noodig en verlangde er zeer naar. Ik had ze te Brazilië gezien, waar zij bij de zware hitte zeer nuttig zijn; en hier, nog digter bij de evennachtslijn, was de hitte zelfs nog heviger.