As soon as I perceived them go towards the shore, I imagined it to be as it really was that they had given over their search, and were going back again; and the captain, as soon as I told him my thoughts, was ready to sink at the apprehensions of it; but I presently thought of a stratagem to fetch them back again, and which answered my end to a tittle.
Mas, en seguida se me ocurrió una estratagema para traerlos de vuelta, que respondía cabalmente a mis necesidades. Ordené a Viernes y al segundo de abordo que cruzaran el pequeño río en dirección al oeste, hacia el lugar donde desembarcaron los salvajes la noche en que Viernes fue rescatado.