This put new thoughts into my head; for I presently imagined that these might be the men belonging to the ship that was cast away in the sight of my island, as I now called it; and who, after the ship was struck on the rock, and they saw her inevitably lost, had saved themselves in their boat, and were landed upon that wild shore among the savages. Upon this I inquired of him more critically what was become of them.
Ciò suscitò nuovi pensieri nella mia mente; credei cioè appartener tali uomini al vascello naufragato a veggente della mia isola com’era solito chiamarla io; mi figurai che quando il vascello fu battuto contro allo scoglio e videro irreparabile la loro perdita, si fossero gettati nella scialuppa, approdando a qualunque rischio in quella terra selvaggia.