These thoughts so oppressed my mind that I began to give over my enterprise; and having hauled my boat into a little creek on the shore, I stepped out, and sat down upon a rising bit of ground, very pensive and anxious, between fear and desire, about my voyage; when, as I was musing, I could perceive that the tide was turned, and the flood come on; upon which my going was impracticable for so many hours.
Ces pensées oppressèrent tellement mon âme, que je commençai à abandonner mon entreprise: je halai ma barque dans une crique du rivage, je gagnai un petit tertre et je m'y assis inquiet et pensif, flottant entre la crainte et le désir de faire mon voyage. Tandis que j'étais à réfléchir, je m'apperçus que la marée avait changé et que le flot montait, ce qui rendait pour quelque temps mon départ impraticable.