I have told this passage, because it introduces what follows: that after this discourse I had with him, I asked him how far it was from our island to the shore, and whether the canoes were not often lost.
J'ai narré ce fait parce qu'il est l'introduction de ce qui suit.--Après que j'eus eu cet entretien avec lui, je lui demandai combien il y avait de notre île au continent, et si les canots rarement périssaient.