When I had pursued this resolution about ten days longer, as I have said, I began to see that the land was inhabited; and in two or three places, as we sailed by, we saw people stand upon the shore to look at us; we could also perceive they were quite black and naked.
ROBINSON ET XURY VAINQUEURS D'UN LION Je savais que touts les vaisseaux qui font voile pour la côte de Guinée, le Brésil ou les Indes-Orientales, touchent à ce cap ou à ces îles. En un mot, je plaçais là toute l'alternative de mon sort, soit que je dusse rencontrer un bâtiment, soit que je dusse périr.