I must acknowledge I had hardly eyes to look up when the seamen told me she was sinking; for from the moment that they rather put me into the boat than that I might be said to go in, my heart was, as it were, dead within me, partly with fright, partly with horror of mind, and the thoughts of what was yet before me.
Toen de matrozen zeiden, dat het schip zinkende was, was de moed mij geheel ontzonken, en van het oogenblik af, dat ik meer in de boot gedragen dan geleid werd, bleef ik half dood, deels van schrik, deels van ontzetting, deels van vrees, voor hetgeen nog volgen zou.