As soon as I perceived them go towards the shore, I imagined it to be as it really was that they had given over their search, and were going back again; and the captain, as soon as I told him my thoughts, was ready to sink at the apprehensions of it; but I presently thought of a stratagem to fetch them back again, and which answered my end to a tittle.
Amint megláttam, hogy újra a part felé tartanak, tudtam, hogy felhagytak a kutatással és csónakba akarnak szállni. Megosztottam ezt a gondolatomat a kapitánnyal is, aki rögtön felfogta, mit jelent ez.