About four o'clock, Pencroft leaving the point of the islet on his left, entered the channel which separated it from the coast, and at five o'clock the anchor of the "Bonadventure" was buried in the sand at the mouth of the Mercy.
Hacia las cuatro, Pencroff, dejando a su izquierda la punta del islote, entraba en el canal que le separaba de la costa, y a las cinco el ancla del Buenaventura mordía el fondo de arena en la desembocadura del río de la Merced.