I spent many a day to find out a great stone big enough to cut hollow, and make fit for a mortar, and could find none at all, except what was in the solid rock, and which I had no way to dig or cut out; nor indeed were the rocks in the island of hardness sufficient, but were all of a sandy, crumbling stone, which neither would bear the weight of a heavy pestle, nor would break the corn without filling it with sand.
Több napot töltöttem olyan kő felkutatásával, ami elég nagy ahhoz, hogy lyukat vághassak bele és mozsárrá alakítsam. De kellő keménységűre csak a nagy szikladarabok részeiben leltem, amelyekhez viszont nem férhettem hozzá.