Candide, who beheld all that passed and saw his benefactor one moment rising above water, and the next swallowed up by the merciless waves, was preparing to jump after him, but was prevented by the philosopher Pangloss, who demonstrated to him that the roadstead of Lisbon had been made on purpose for the Anabaptist to be drowned there.
Candide közeledik, észre veszi jóltevőjét, amint egy pillanatra kibukkan a vizből, majd örökre elmerül a hullámokban: utána akar ugrani a tengerbe, de a filozófus Pangloss megakadályozza őt, bebizonyitván, hogy a lisszaboni kikötő egyenesen azért alakult, hogy ott ez az anabaptista megfulladjon.