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.
A pesar de que, una vez terminada, era una pieza fea y tosca, hecha de barro rojo, como mis otros cacharros, era fuerte y sólida y pasaba bien el humo, lo que me proporcionó una gran satisfacción porque estaba acostumbrado a fumar. A bordo del barco había varias pipas pero, al principio, no les hice caso porque no sabía que encontraría tabaco en la isla pero, más tarde, cuando regresé por ellas, no pude encontrar ninguna.