Accordingly, I let myself down into the water, and swam across the channel, which lay between the ship and the sands, and even that with difficulty enough, partly with the weight of the things I had about me, and partly the roughness of the water; for the wind rose very hastily, and before it was quite high water it blew a storm.
A vízbe ereszkedtem, és úszni kezdtem a homokos part felé, de egyrészt a súly, amelyet magammal cipeltem, másrészt az egyre viharosabbá váló szél keltette hullámok megnehezítették a dolgomat.