But they would not come out, until two of us had gone and struggled with them for five minutes, when they would jump up suddenly, and try and throw us into the water and drown us.
Mais ils ne voulaient plus sortir. Nous bataillâmes avec eux pendant cinq minutes, au bout desquelles ils jaillirent subitement, dans l’intention non dissimulée de nous jeter a l’eau et de nous noyer.