I never so much as troubled myself to consider what I should do with myself when I went thither; what would become of me if I fell into the hands of these savages; or how I should escape them if they attacked me; no, nor so much as how it was possible for me to reach the coast, and not to be attacked by some or other of them, without any possibility of delivering myself: and if I should not fall into their hands, what I should do for provision, or whither I should bend my course: none of these thoughts, I say, so much as came in my way; but my mind was wholly bent upon the notion of my passing over in my boat to the mainland.
Je ne me mis nullement en peine de ce que je ferais de moi quand je serais parvenu là, de ce que je deviendrais si je tombais entre les mains des Sauvages; comment je leur échapperais s'ils m'entreprenaient, comment il me serait possible d'aborder à la côte sans être attaqué par quelqu'un d'eux de manière à ne pouvoir me délivrer moi-même. Enfin, s'il advenait que je ne tombasse point en leur pouvoir, comment je me procurerais des provisions et vers quel lieu je dirigerais ma course.