I looked on the rapid currents which ran constantly on both sides of the island at a distance, and which were very terrible to me from the remembrance of the hazard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me; for I foresaw that if I was driven into either of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and perhaps out of my reach or sight of the island again; and that then, as my boat was but small, if any little gale of wind should rise, I should be inevitably lost.
Ez rémisztő emlékeket keltett bennem, és vállalkozó kedvem kezdett alábbhagyni. Tudtam, hogy ha újra elsodor az áramlat, olyan távolra kerülhetek a szigettől, hogy akár szem elől is veszíthetem azt, és akkor menthetetlenül végem van.