There was no wind stirring to help me, and all I could do with my paddles signified nothing: and now I began to give myself over for lost; for as the current was on both sides of the island, I knew in a few leagues distance they must join again, and then I was irrecoverably gone; nor did I see any possibility of avoiding it; so that I had no prospect before me but of perishing, not by the sea, for that was calm enough, but of starving from hunger.
Comme il n'y avait point de vent pour me seconder, tout ce que je faisais avec mes pagaies ne signifiait rien. Alors je commençais à me croire perdu; car, les courants régnant des deux côtés de l'île, je n'ignorais pas qu'à la distance de quelques lieues ils devaient se rejoindre, et que là ce serait irrévocablement fait de moi.