After this, I spent a great deal of time and pains to make an umbrella; I was, indeed, in great want of one, and had a great mind to make one; I had seen them made in the Brazils, where they are very useful in the great heats there, and I felt the heats every jot as great here, and greater too, being nearer the equinox; besides, as I was obliged to be much abroad, it was a most useful thing to me, as well for the rains as the heats.
Posteriormente, empleé mucho tiempo y esfuerzo en fabricarme una sombrilla, que mucha falta me hacía. Había visto cómo se confeccionaban en Brasil, donde eran de gran utilidad a causa del excesivo calor y me parecía que el calor que debía soportar aquí era tanto o más fuerte que el de allá, pues me encontraba más cerca del equinoccio.