This moment my former notions of deliverance darted into my thoughts, for now I found I was likely to have a little ship at my command; and my master being gone, I prepared to furnish myself, not for fishing business, but for a voyage; though I knew not, neither did I so much as consider, whither I should steer—anywhere to get out of that place was my desire.
Cette occasion réveilla en mon esprit mes premières idées de liberté; car alorsje me trouvais sur le point d'avoir un petit navire à mon commandement. Mon maître étant parti, je commençai à me munir, non d'ustensiles de pêche, mais de provisions de voyage, quoique je ne susse ni ne considérasse où je devais faire route, pour sortir de ce lieu, tout chemin m'étant bon.