As for the first, which was so vastly big, for I made it without considering beforehand, as I ought to have done, how I should be able to launch it, so, never being able to bring it into the water, or bring the water to it, I was obliged to let it lie where it was as a memorandum to teach me to be wiser the next time: indeed, the next time, though I could not get a tree proper for it, and was in a place where I could not get the water to it at any less distance than, as I have said, near half a mile, yet, as I saw it was practicable at last, I never gave it over; and though I was near two years about it, yet I never grudged my labour, in hopes of having a boat to go off to sea at last.
A készítése előtt nem gondolkodtam el azon, hogyan bocsátom majd vízre, így amikor végeztem a kifaragásával, nem is tudtam azt megmozdítani, ott hagytam hát az eredeti helyén, emlékeztetőül, hogy legközelebb legyek megfontoltabb. A következő csónakhoz nem találtam megfelelő fatörzset, legalábbis a parthoz közel nem.