In a kind of little bay, created by a point of the shore which broke the current, the sailor and the lad placed some good-sized pieces of wood, which they had fastened together with dry creepers. A raft was thus formed, on which they stacked all they had collected, sufficient, indeed, to have loaded at least twenty men.
En una especie de remanso situado en la ribera, que rompía la corriente, el marino y su compañero pusieron trozos de madera bastante gruesos que ataron con bejucos secos, formando una especie de balsa, sobre la cual apilaron toda la leña que habían recogido, o sea la carga de veinte hombres por lo menos.