About a year and a half after I entertained these notions (and by long musing had, as it were, resolved them all into nothing, for want of an occasion to put them into execution), I was surprised one morning by seeing no less than five canoes all on shore together on my side the island, and the people who belonged to them all landed and out of my sight.
De repente, una mañana, muy temprano, divisé, para mi sorpresa, al menos cinco canoas en la playa en mi lado de la isla. La gente que viajaba en ellas había desembarcado y estaba fuera del alcance de mi vista.