But I think I was never more vain of my own performance, or more joyful for anything I found out, than for my being able to make a tobacco-pipe; and though it was a very ugly, clumsy thing when it was done, and only burned red, like other earthenware, yet as it was hard and firm, and would draw the smoke, I was exceedingly comforted with it, for I had been always used to smoke; and there were pipes in the ship, but I forgot them at first, not thinking there was tobacco in the island; and afterwards, when I searched the ship again, I could not come at any pipes.
Bár elég csúf és idomtalan volt és egyszerű agyagvörös színe volt, mint bármely más edényemnek, de ép volt, kemény és jól szelelt, ezért nagyon örültem neki. Mindig szerettem dohányozni, és bár a hajón voltak pipák, de nem fordítottam rájuk figyelmet, mert nem gondoltam, hogy a szigeten van dohány.