How I could not have so much as got any food, except fish and turtles; and that, as it was long before I found any of them, I must have perished first; that I should have lived, if I had not perished, like a mere savage; that if I had killed a goat or a fowl, by any contrivance, I had no way to flay or open it, or part the flesh from the skin and the bowels, or to cut it up; but must gnaw it with my teeth, and pull it with my claws, like a beast.
Ha mégsem, vadember módjára kellene élnem. Tűz és kés híján a véletlenül megölt kecskét vagy madarat fogaimmal és körmeimmel kellene szétszaggatnom, ahogy a vadállatok teszik.