Gideon Spilett, Pencroft, and Herbert attentively examined this land, on which they might perhaps have to live many long years; on which indeed they might even die, should it be out of the usual track of vessels, as was likely to be the case.
Gedeon Spilett, Pencroff és Harbert figyelmesen szemügyre vette ezt a földet, amelyen talán hosszú éveken át kell élniük, és talán ott is kell meghalniok majd, ha ugyan nem vetődik errefelé valamilyen hajó.