Then it occurred to me again, how well I was furnished for my subsistence, and what would have been my case if it had not happened (which was a hundred thousand to one) that the ship floated from the place where she first struck, and was driven so near to the shore that I had time to get all these things out of her; what would have been my case, if I had been forced to have lived in the condition in which I at first came on shore, without necessaries of life, or necessaries to supply and procure them?
Alors je compris de nouveau combien j'étais largement pourvu pour ma subsistance. Quel eût été mon sort, s'il n'était pas arrivé, par une chance qui s'offrirait à peine une fois sur cent mille, que le vaisseau se soulevât du banc où il s'était ensablé d'abord, et dérivât si proche de la côte, que j'eusse le temps d'en faire le sauvetage!