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.
Úgy gondoltam, ha találok alkalmas agyagot, akkor ezen az éghajlaton a napmeleg segítségével könnyen szilárddá és erőssé száríthatom. Mivel elengedhetetlen volt a kenyér és némely más ételek elkészítéséhez, azon igyekeztem, hogy legyen az edények között néhány magas falú, korsószerű példány is.