Had they thought fit to have gone to sleep there, as the other part of them had done, they had done the job for us; but they were too full of apprehensions of danger to venture to go to sleep, though they could not tell what the danger was they had to fear.
Zoo zij goedgevonden hadden daar te gaan slapen, zoo als de anderen gedaan hadden, zouden zij ons ligt werk gemaakt hebben; maar zij vreesden te veel gevaar om te durven slapen, schoon zij niet wisten voor welk gevaar zij te vreezen hadden.