The third day, in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, and I ventured: but I am a warning to all rash and ignorant pilots; for no sooner was I come to the point, when I was not even my boat’s length from the shore, but I found myself in a great depth of water, and a current like the sluice of a mill; it carried my boat along with it with such violence that all I could do could not keep her so much as on the edge of it; but I found it hurried me farther and farther out from the eddy, which was on my left hand.
À peine eus-je atteint le cap,--je n'étais pas éloigné de la terre de la longueur de mon embarcation,--que je me trouvai dans des eaux profondes et dans un courant rapide comme l'écluse d'un moulin. Il drossa ma pirogue avec une telle violence, que tout ce que je pus faire ne put la retenir près du rivage, et de plus en plus il m'emporta loin du remous, que je laissai à ma gauche.