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.
Den derden dag was des morgens de zee stil, daar de wind gedurende den nacht was gaan liggen, en ik waagde den togt; maar het volgende is eene les voor alle onbedreven loodsen. Naauwelijks was ik aan het rif, zelfs nog geen bootslengte van den wal, of ik bevond mij in zeer diep water, en eene strooming, die als een molensluis liep.