As soon as I perceived them go towards the shore, I imagined it to be as it really was that they had given over their search, and were going back again; and the captain, as soon as I told him my thoughts, was ready to sink at the apprehensions of it; but I presently thought of a stratagem to fetch them back again, and which answered my end to a tittle.
Io almeno, appena li vidi volgersi al mare, credei, e l’indovinai, che stanchi di questa inutile e paurosa ricerca, non ne volesser saper altro e si disponessero a battersela. Detto ciò al capitano, fu presto a persuadersene anch’egli e ad esserne costernato come di cosa che gli troncava di botto ogni concepita speranza; ma, senza smarrirmi per questo, divisai tantosto per farli tornare addietro uno stratagemma che andò a colpire perfettamente nel segno.