What could they think of the degree of brutishness into which this miserable being had fallen, unless that his imprisonment on the islet dated from a very distant period and after having arrived there a rational being solitude had reduced him to this condition.
¿Qué podía conjeturarse del grado de embrutecimiento en que había caído aquel infeliz, sino que su prisión en el islote era ya antiquísima, y que después de haber llegado a él como ser racional, el aislamiento le había reducido a semejante estado?