The craft that Cook was aboard charged into some coral rock, and if his vessel didn't go down, it was thanks to the circumstance that a piece of coral broke off in the collision and plugged the very hole it had made in the hull.
Le bâtiment que montait Cook donna sur un roc, et s'il ne coula pas, ce fut grâce à cette circonstance que le morceau de corail, détaché au choc, resta engagé dans la coque entr'ouverte.