But all this while I made no allowance for the dangers of such an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hands of savages, and perhaps such as I might have reason to think far worse than the lions and tigers of Africa: that if I once came in their power, I should run a hazard of more than a thousand to one of being killed, and perhaps of being eaten; for I had heard that the people of the Caribbean coast were cannibals or man-eaters, and I knew by the latitude that I could not be far from that shore.
Mais dans tout ce raisonnement je ne tenais aucun compte des dangers d'une telle entreprise dans le cas où je viendrais à tomber entre les mains des Sauvages, qui pouvaient être, comme j'aurais eu raison de le penser, plus féroces que les lions et les tigres de l'Afrique. Une fois en leur pouvoir, il y avait, mille chances à courir contre une qu'ils me tueraient et sans doute me mangeraient.