"And then," continued the sailor, "if the document was several years old, if it had been shut up in that bottle for several years, it would have been injured by damp.
No meg aztán - tette hozzá a tengerész -, ha csakugyan sokéves volna az az írás, ha csakugyan évekkel ezelőtt tették volna a palackba, akkor már ronggyá áztatta volna a nedvesség.