Both these things filled my head with new imaginations, and gave me the vapours again to the highest degree, so that I shook with cold like one in an ague; and I went home again, filled with the belief that some man or men had been on shore there; or, in short, that the island was inhabited, and I might be surprised before I was aware; and what course to take for my security I knew not.
Ce double désappointement remplit ma tête de nouvelles imaginations et mon cœur de la plus profonde mélancolie. Un frisson me saisit comme si j'eusse eu la fièvre, et je m'en retournai chez moi, plein de l'idée qu'un homme ou des hommes étaient descendus sur ce rivage, ou que l'île était habitée, et que je pouvais être pris à l'improviste.