ROGER: So here you are, at last!

HUGO: It was as if he'd been expecting me. I moved back to the other end of the boat, with my mind working fast. Fortunately I had a knife on me, so I knew I could defend myself in case he attacked me. Anyway, he was obviously very seriously injured. I had to stay in that boat; it was my only chance. It had a small motor, and I tried to start it.

ROGER: You're wasting your time, there's no fuel.

HUGO: Damn!

HUGO: Listen Roger, don't come near me! I've got a knife and I'll use it.

ROGER: You always were a clever bastard, Hugo. Don't worry, I haven't got the strength to move.

HUGO: There was a light wind, so we drifted slowly across that enormous ocean. The fog got thicker, so I could see nothing at all. And then, night fell. I didn't dare to go to sleep, so I lay awake and watching all night long. I might have become dangerously weak from hunger, but fortunately I found a bar of chocolate which I'd bought at Trinidad Airport.

ROGER: Are you eating something, Hugo? Please give me some, I'm so hungry!

HUGO: There isn't enough for both of us.

HUGO: The following morning the fog had gone, and when the sun rose it became incredibly hot. The chocolate had given me such a terrible thirst that I thought I would die. Then I noticed the label on the motor, it said "Water-cooled. Fill regularly."

HUGO: I hurriedly took the thing to pieces and found about half a liter of water. It was brown and rusty, but it saved my life. Temple was watching me.

ROGER: Water! Give me some water, please!

HUGO: Get your own water!

HUGO: That water got me through the following day and night, but by the next morning I had finished it, and, of course, I was terribly hungry as well. I was only half conscious on that third day. I lay there quite still, with one hand on my knife. At one point I thought Temple was attacking me... “Keep away from me, I told you I've got a knife!”

HUGO: But I was only imagining it. What a state I was in! I remember dreaming at one point that I was a child again, on a train going to Stockholm, and feeling terribly excited. And I looked around me and saw... the land!

HUGO: Only a few hundred meters away there was a small sandy beach with palm trees all around. I thought it was another dream. I closed my eyes and looked again, and it was still there! Temple wasn't moving, but, just in case he was still alive, I took out my knife and made a large hole in the side of the dinghy.

HUGO: It still felt like a dream. I jumped into the sea and somehow managed to swim to the shore. As I pulled myself onto the beach I turned round to check that the dinghy had sunk.

HUGO: Then I fell asleep on the beach, where I lay until I was found by a couple of tourists.