I knew not what was the particular occasion of it, but as I was reading in the Bible, and taken up with very serious thoughts about my present condition, I was surprised with the noise of a gun, as I thought, fired at sea.
Ik zat in den Bijbel te lezen, en ernstig over mijn toestand na te denken, toen ik eensklaps schrikte van een kanonschot, dat, naar ik meende, in zee gelost werd.