I looked on the rapid currents which ran constantly on both sides of the island at a distance, and which were very terrible to me from the remembrance of the hazard I had been in before, and my heart began to fail me; for I foresaw that if I was driven into either of those currents, I should be carried a great way out to sea, and perhaps out of my reach or sight of the island again; and that then, as my boat was but small, if any little gale of wind should rise, I should be inevitably lost.
Observé las rápidas corrientes que pasaban a ambos lados de la isla y me parecieron tan terribles, por el recuerdo del peligro en que me había encontrado, que comencé a perder valor, pues me daba cuenta de que si caía en una de ellas, sería arrastrado mar adentro y perdería de vista la isla. Si esto ocurría, como mi piragua era muy pequeña, la menor ráfaga de viento me perdería irremediablemente.