Then it occurred to me again, how well I was furnished for my subsistence, and what would have been my case if it had not happened (which was a hundred thousand to one) that the ship floated from the place where she first struck, and was driven so near to the shore that I had time to get all these things out of her; what would have been my case, if I had been forced to have lived in the condition in which I at first came on shore, without necessaries of life, or necessaries to supply and procure them?
Annak, ami velem megesett, vagyis, hogy a hajó a távoli zátonyról a part közelébe sodródott, és ott vesztegelt, amíg mindent elhozhattam róla, az esélye a valóságban egy a százezerhez. Mi lett volna a sorsom, ha úgy kell itt a szigeten élnem, ahogy először partra vetett a víz, anélkül, hogy az élethez szükséges feltételeket megteremthetném a magam számára.