However, I went down thus two or three days, and having seen nothing, I began to be a little bolder, and to think there was really nothing in it but my own imagination; but I could not persuade myself fully of this till I should go down to the shore again, and see this print of a foot, and measure it by my own, and see if there was any similitude or fitness, that I might be assured it was my own foot: but when I came to the place, first, it appeared evidently to me, that when I laid up my boat I could not possibly be on shore anywhere thereabouts; secondly, when I came to measure the mark with my own foot, I found my foot not so large by a great deal.
No obstante, al cabo de tres días de salir sin encontrar nada, comencé a sentir más valor y a pensar que, en realidad, todo había sido producto de mi imaginación. Mas no logré convencerme totalmente hasta que fui nuevamente a la playa para medir la huella y ver si había alguna evidencia de que se trataba de la huella de mi propio pie.