The only thing that give him concern was being obliged to leave his sheep behind him, which he intrusted to the care of the Academy of Sciences at Bordeaux, who proposed, as a prize subject for the year, to prove why the wool of this sheep was red; and the prize was adjudged to a northern sage, who demonstrated by A plus B, minus C, divided by Z, that the sheep must necessarily be red, and die of the mange.
Lo único que sintió fué tenerse que separar de su carnero, que dexó á la Academia de ciencias de Burdeos, la qual propuso por asunto del premio de aquel año determinar porque la lana de aquel carnero era encarnada; y se le adjudicó á un docto del Norte, que demostró por A mas B, ménos C dividido por Z, que era forzoso que fuera aquel carnero encarnado, y que se muriese de la moniña.