Al cap de dotze o quinze minuts interminables les rodes pararen, i Tom llisca per damunt la coberta i neda cap a la ribera dins la fosca, desembarcant a cinquanta yardes, riu avall, fora del perill de possibles rodamons.
At the end of a long twelve or fifteen minutes the wheels stopped, and Tom slipped overboard and swam ashore in the dusk, landing fifty yards downstream, out of danger of possible stragglers.