I was thinking of other things, and forgot, as any one might easily understand, that I was steering, and the consequence was that we had got mixed up a good deal with the tow- path.
Je pensais a autre chose, et j’avais oublié, comme il est facile de le comprendre, que je tenais la barre ; en conséquence nous venions de heurter la berge, au pied du chemin de halage.