Two years already ! and for two years the colonists had had no communication with their fellow-creatures ! They were without news from the civilized world , lost on this island , as completely as if they had been on the most minute star of the celestial hemisphere !
Два года уже! и два года колонисты не имели связи со своими собратьями! Они не знали вестей из цивилизованного мира, затерялись на этом острове так, словно побывали на самой маленькой звезде небесного полушария!