At the expiration of two months, being obliged by some mercantile affairs to go to Lisbon he took the two philosophers with him in the same ship; Pangloss, during the course of the voyage, explained to him how everything was so constituted that it could not be better.
Viéndose precisado á cabo de dos meses á ir á Lisboa para asuntos de su comercio, se embarcó con sus dos filósofos. Panglós le explicaba de qué modo todas las cosas estaban peifectísimamente, y Santiago no era de su parecer.