The third day, in the morning, the wind having abated overnight, the sea was calm, and I ventured: but I am a warning to all rash and ignorant pilots; for no sooner was I come to the point, when I was not even my boat’s length from the shore, but I found myself in a great depth of water, and a current like the sluice of a mill; it carried my boat along with it with such violence that all I could do could not keep her so much as on the edge of it; but I found it hurried me farther and farther out from the eddy, which was on my left hand.
Quiero que esto sirva de advertencia a los pilotos temerarios e ignorantes, pues, no bien me había alejado de la costa un poco más que el largo de mi piragua, cuando me encontré en aguas profundas y en medio de una corriente tan rápida y fuerte como las aspas de un molino. Pese a todos mis esfuerzos, apenas podía mantenerme en sus márgenes y me alejaba cada vez más del remolino, que estaba a mi izquierda.