As in my present condition there were not really many things which I wanted, so indeed I thought that the frights I had been in about these savage wretches, and the concern I had been in for my own preservation, had taken off the edge of my invention, for my own conveniences; and I had dropped a good design, which I had once bent my thoughts upon, and that was to try if I could not make some of my barley into malt, and then try to brew myself some beer.
Como en la situación en la que me hallaba, en realidad no había demasiadas cosas que echara de menos, pensé que los temores que había padecido a causa de aquellos salvajes y mi preocupación por salvar mi vida, habían disminuido mi ingenio y me habían hecho abandonar el proyecto de hacer malta con la cebada para, luego, tratar de hacer cerveza.