I lived in this condition near two years more; but my unlucky head, that was always to let me know it was born to make my body miserable, was all these two years filled with projects and designs how, if it were possible, I might get away from this island: for sometimes I was for making another voyage to the wreck, though my reason told me that there was nothing left there worth the hazard of my voyage; sometimes for a ramble one way, sometimes another—and I believe verily, if I had had the boat that I went from Sallee in, I should have ventured to sea, bound anywhere, I knew not whither.
Néha arra készültem, hogy újabb utazást teszek a hajóroncshoz, de aztán lebeszéltem magam, mondván, semmi sincs ott, ami megérné a kockázatot, máskor viszont más irányokba kóboroltam volna. Időnként arról ábrándoztam, bárcsak meglenne a szalehi csónakom, tengerre szállhatnék, elmehetnék innen, mindegy merre.