Many a weary stroke it had cost, you may be sure; and had I gotten it into the water, I make no question, but I should have begun the maddest voyage, and the most unlikely to be performed, that ever was undertaken.
Or non mi rimaneva più che a vararlo, in che se fossi riuscito, non dubito che avrei impreso il più strambo ed inverisimile viaggio fra quanti ne furono tentati giammai.