In the event of this, the cart would have been of more use than the light canoe, but it was heavy and clumsy to drag, and therefore more difficult to use; this led Pencroft to express his regret that the chest had not contained, besides "his halfpound of tobacco," a pair of strong New Jersey horses, which would have been very useful to the colony!
Dans cette prévision, le chariot eût, sans doute, mieux convenu que la fragile pirogue; mais ce chariot, lourd et grossier, il fallait le traîner, ce qui en rendait l'emploi moins facile, et ce qui amena Pencroff à exprimer le regret que la caisse n'eût pas contenu, en même temps que «sa demi-livre de tabac», une paire de ces vigoureux chevaux du New- Jersey, qui eussent été fort utiles à la colonie!