I knew I had old sails, or rather pieces of old sails, enough; but as I had had them now six-and-twenty years by me, and had not been very careful to preserve them, not imagining that I should ever have this kind of use for them, I did not doubt but they were all rotten; and, indeed, most of them were so.
Öreg vitorlám vagy inkább vitorladarabjaim voltak még ugyan, de biztos voltam benne, hogy kellő törődés híján szörnyen megviselhette ezeket a hosszú idő. Amikor elővettem, láttam is, hogy nem sokat tévedtem.