"Have you understood, my friends, how that bullet got into the body of the young peccary; how that case happened to be so fortunately stranded, without there being any trace of a wreck; how that bottle containing the document presented itself so opportunely, during our first sea-excursion; how our canoe, having broken its moorings, floated down the current of the Mercy and rejoined us at the very moment we needed it; how after the ape invasion the ladder was so obligingly thrown down from Granite House; and lastly, how the document, which Ayrton asserts was never written by him, fell into our hands?"
Miféle különös véletlen sodorta elénk első próbautunk során éppen a kellő pillanatban az üzenetet rejtő palackot? Miként érkezhetett hozzánk a köteléről elszabadult ladik a Hála-folyón pontosan abban a percben, amikor a legnagyobb szükségünk volt rá?