However, I found two pieces which appeared pretty good, and with these I went to work; and with a great deal of pains, and awkward stitching, you may be sure, for want of needles, I at length made a three-cornered ugly thing, like what we call in England a shoulder-of-mutton sail, to go with a boom at bottom, and a little short sprit at the top, such as usually our ships’ long-boats sail with, and such as I best knew how to manage, as it was such a one as I had to the boat in which I made my escape from Barbary, as related in the first part of my story.
Esta iría amarrada a una botavara grande por abajo y a otra más pequeña por arriba, del mismo modo que las chalupas de nuestros barcos. Yo conocía su manejo perfectamente pues la barca en la que me había escapado de Berbería tenía una igual, como he contado en la primera parte.