During these first hurries I was stupid, lying still in my cabin, which was in the steerage, and cannot describe my temper: I could ill resume the first penitence which I had so apparently trampled upon and hardened myself against: I thought the bitterness of death had been past, and that this would be nothing like the first; but when the master himself came by me, as I said just now, and said we should be all lost, I was dreadfully frighted.
Ik zeide tot mijzelven, dat de eerste bitterheid van den angst voorbij was, en dat deze onrust niets zou zijn in vergelijking van de eerste. Maar toen ik den kapitein zelf hoorde zeggen, dat wij allen in gevaar waren van te vergaan, gevoelde ik een ontzettenden angst.