Complex sentence: Vuyst, who on assuming the governorship at the age of 30, covered his one eye with a plaster stated to have said that only one eye was adequate to rule such a small country.
Split into simpler sentences: Vuyst, who on assuming the governorship at the age of 30, covered his one eye with a plaster. The reasoning given by him for covering one eye was that only one eye was adequate to rule such a small country.