Accordingly, I let myself down into the water, and swam across the channel, which lay between the ship and the sands, and even that with difficulty enough, partly with the weight of the things I had about me, and partly the roughness of the water; for the wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high water it blew a storm.
Je me jetai donc à l'eau, et je traversai à la nage le chenal ouvert entre le bâtiment et les sables, mais avec assez de difficulté, à cause des objets pesants que j'avais sur moi, et du clapotage de la mer; car le vent força si brusquement, que la tempête se déchaîna avant même que la marée fût haute.