I looked on the rapid currents which ran constantly on both sides of the island at a distance, and which were very terrible to me from the remembrance of the hazard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me; for I foresaw that if I was driven into either of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and perhaps out of my reach or sight of the island again; and that then, as my boat was but small, if any little gale of wind should rise, I should be inevitably lost.
Je regardai les courants rapides qui à quelque distance régnaient des deux côtés de l'île. Le souvenir des dangers que j'avais courus me rendit ce spectacle bien terrible, et le cœur commença à me manquer; car je pressentis que si un de ces courants m'entraînait, je serais emporté en haute mer, peut-être hors de la vue de mon île; et qu'alors, comme ma pirogue était fort légère, pour peu qu'un joli frais s'élevât, j'étais inévitablement perdu.