In the next place, I had no hops to make it keep, no yeast to make it work, no copper or kettle to make it boil; and yet with all these things wanting, I verily believe, had not the frights and terrors I was in about the savages intervened, I had undertaken it, and perhaps brought it to pass too; for I seldom gave anything over without accomplishing it, when once I had it in my head to began it.
Tampoco tenía lúpulo ni levadura para que fermentase, ni una marmita u otro recipiente para hervirla. No obstante, creo sinceramente que de no haber sido porque el miedo y el terror hacia los salvajes me interrumpieron, me habría empeñado en hacerla y, tal vez, lo habría logrado, pues raras veces renunciaba a una idea una vez que había reflexionado lo suficiente como para ejecutarla.