However, we committed our souls to God in the most earnest manner; and the wind driving us towards the shore, we hastened our destruction with our own hands, pulling as well as we could towards land.
Wij bevalen Gode onze ziel, en terwijl de wind ons naar de kust dreef, verhaastten wij de beslissing van ons lot, door zoo hard wij konden naar den wal te roeijen.