I knew I had old sails, or rather pieces of old sails, enough; but as I had had them now six-and-twenty years by me, and had not been very careful to preserve them, not imagining that I should ever have this kind of use for them, I did not doubt but they were all rotten; and, indeed, most of them were so.
No obstante, encontré dos trozos que estaban en bastante buen estado y me puse a trabajar. Con mucha dificultad y con puntadas torcidas (podéis estar seguros) por falta de agujas, hice, por fin, una cosa fea y triangular que se parecía a lo que en Inglaterra llamamos vela de lomo de cordero.