As soon as I perceived them go towards the shore, I imagined it to be as it really was that they had given over their search, and were going back again; and the captain, as soon as I told him my thoughts, was ready to sink at the apprehensions of it; but I presently thought of a stratagem to fetch them back again, and which answered my end to a tittle.
Zoodra ik hen naar het strand zag gaan, verbeeldde ik mij, gelijk het waarlijk was, dat zij hunne nasporingen hadden opgegeven, en terug wilden keeren, en de kapitein wien ik mijn vermoeden mededeelde, bezweek schier van angst. Ik had echter thans eene krijgslist bedacht om hen terug te lokken, die mij volmaakt gelukte.