for I understood navigation well, and being grown weary of a surgeon's employment at sea, which, however, I could exercise upon occasion, I took a skilful young man of that calling, one Robert Purefoy, into my ship.
zeren eta, ongi ezagutzen bainuen itsasketa, eta nekatua nengoenez mediku-lanaz itsasoan,-beti ere berreskura nezakeena egokiera izanez gero-, lanbide horretako gazte trebe bat hartu nuen neure ontzian, Robert Purefoy zelako bat.