This touched my heart a little, and brought tears out of my eyes, and I began to bless myself that such a prodigy of nature should happen upon my account; and this was the more strange to me, because I saw near it still, all along by the side of the rock, some other straggling stalks, which proved to be stalks of rice, and which I knew, because I had seen it grow in Africa when I was ashore there.
Könnyek tolultak a szemembe, és áldottam a természetet ezért a csodáért. Ami még különösebb volt, az árpa mellett, néhány másik sarjadó kalászt is észrevettem, amelyről hamarosan kiderült, hogy rizs.