But all this while I made no allowance for the dangers of such an undertaking, and how I might fall into the hands of savages, and perhaps such as I might have reason to think far worse than the lions and tigers of Africa: that if I once came in their power, I should run a hazard of more than a thousand to one of being killed, and perhaps of being eaten; for I had heard that the people of the Caribbean coast were cannibals or man-eaters, and I knew by the latitude that I could not be far from that shore.
Talán az afrikai oroszlánoknál vagy tigriseknél is elvetemültebb vademberek kezei közé kerülhettem. Tudtam, hogy a szélességi fok szerint nem lehettem messze a karibi parttól, s hogy az ottani vademberek emberevő kannibálok voltak, kik foglyaikat kegyetlenül megölték és megették.