If I had had hands to have refitted her, and to have launched her into the water, the boat would have done well enough, and I might have gone back into the Brazils with her easily enough; but I might have foreseen that I could no more turn her and set her upright upon her bottom than I could remove the island; however, I went to the woods, and cut levers and rollers, and brought them to the boat resolving to try what I could do; suggesting to myself that if I could but turn her down, I might repair the damage she had received, and she would be a very good boat, and I might go to sea in her very easily.
Emelőfát és hengereket hoztam, melyeket az erdőben készítettem, hogy megkíséreljem általuk a lehetetlent. Azzal biztattam magam, hogy ha sikerül megfordítanom és kijavítanom a sérüléseit, pompás csónak lesz belőle, amellyel tengerre szállhatok.