While I was doing this, I found the tide begin to flow, though very calm; and I had the mortification to see my coat, shirt, and waistcoat, which I had left on the shore, upon the sand, swim away.
Tandis que j'étais occupé à ceci, je remarquai que la marée, quoique très-calme, commençait à monter, et j'eus la mortification de voir flotter au large mon justaucorps, ma chemise et ma veste, que j'avais laissés sur le sable du rivage.