Erat namque illo in loco lapis terrae aequalis obtectus cespite tenui, neque ullus alter in tota illa campi planitie lapis inveniri poterat; casuque evenit, vel potius divina provisione, ad puniendam inobedientiae meae culpam, ut hunc capite ac manu quam capiti ruens subposueram, tangerem, atque infracto pollice capitis quoque iunctura solveretur; et ego, ut dixi, simillimus mortuo fierem.
For in that place there lay a stone close to the ground, covered with a little green turf, and not one other could be found in all that level ground; and it fortuned by chance, or rather by the providence of God to punish my fault of disobedience, that I pitched upon this stone with my head and hand, which in the fall I had put under my head, and so broke my thumb and also cracked my skull; and, as I said, was most like one that was dead.
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