But perhaps if they'd been able to read their fears more like a scientist, with more coolness of judgment, they would have listened instead to the less violent but the more likely tale, the story of starvation, and headed for Tahiti, just as Melville's sad commentary suggests.
No, da su možda uspjeli pročitati svoje strahove poput znanstvenika, s više objektivnosti, poslušali bi manje nasilnu, ali vjerojatniju priču, priču o umiranju od gladi, i krenuli prema Tahitiju, kao što je to predložio i Melville.