For two hours the stranger remained alone on the shore, evidently under the influence of recollections which recalled all his past life--a melancholy life doubtless--and the colonists, without losing sight of him, did not attempt to disturb his solitude.
Durante dos horas el desconocido permaneció solo en la playa bajo la influencia de los recuerdos que se le presentaban de su pasado, pasado funesto sin duda, y los colonos, sin perderlo de vista, no trataron de turbar su soledad.