I had never handled a tool in my life; and yet, in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools. However, I made abundance of things, even without tools; and some with no more tools than an adze and a hatchet, which perhaps were never made that way before, and that with infinite labour.
Nunca en mi vida había utilizado una herramienta, mas con el tiempo, con trabajo, empeño e ingenio descubrí que no había nada que no pudiera construir, en especial, si tenía herramientas; y hasta llegué a hacer un montón de cosas sin herramientas, algunas de ellas, tan solo con una azuela y un hacha, como, seguramente, nunca se habrían hecho antes; y todo ello con infinito esfuerzo.