I contented myself with these discoveries for this time, and came back, musing with myself what course I might take to know the virtue and goodness of any of the fruits or plants which I should discover, but could bring it to no conclusion; for, in short, I had made so little observation while I was in the Brazils, that I knew little of the plants in the field; at least, very little that might serve to any purpose now in my distress.
Ik stelde mij hiermede voor 's hands tevreden, en keerde terug, peinzende over de middelen, om de deugd of het schadelijke van vruchten of planten, die ik vinden mogt, te ontdekken; maar kon hierop niets vinden, want ik had in Brazilië hierop zoo weinig acht geslagen, dat ik weinig kennis van de planten had, althans geene die mij thans te stade kwam.