The third day, in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, and I ventured: but I am a warning to all rash and ignorant pilots; for no sooner was I come to the point, when I was not even my boat’s length from the shore, but I found myself in a great depth of water, and a current like the sluice of a mill; it carried my boat along with it with such violence that all I could do could not keep her so much as on the edge of it; but I found it hurried me farther and farther out from the eddy, which was on my left hand.
Alla mattina del terzo giorno, calmatosi il vento durante la notte ed essendo tranquillo il mare, io m’arrischiai; ma divenni una gran lezione per l’avvenire a tutti i nocchieri ignoranti ed audaci. Perchè non appena fui arrivato alla punta, non lontano più che la lunghezza della mia navicella dalla spiaggia, mi trovai in una grande profondità d’acque, ed in una corrente simile alla cateratta di un mulino.