Now, upon this subject, setting aside the examples I have gathered from books, and what Aristotle says of Andron the Argian, that he travelled over the arid sands of Lybia without drinking: a gentleman, who has very well behaved himself in several employments, said, in a place where I was, that he had ridden from Madrid to Lisbon, in the heat of summer, without any drink at all.
Bada, neure gai honetan, liburuen bidez dakizkidan ereduak bazterrean utzirik, eta Aristotelesek Andron argiviarraz dioena, Libiako legar idorrak aldez alde zeharkatzen zituela edan gabe, kargu askotan ibilia den aitorenseme batek zioen ni nengoen lekuan Madriletik Lisboara joana zela uda minean edan gabe. Bizkorki dabil bere adinerako, eta bere bizitzan ez du ezer miresgarririk hau ezik: