I do not remember that I had, in all that time, one thought that so much as tended either to looking upwards towards God, or inwards towards a reflection upon my own ways; but a certain stupidity of soul, without desire of good, or conscience of evil, had entirely overwhelmed me; and I was all that the most hardened, unthinking, wicked creature among our common sailors can be supposed to be; not having the least sense, either of the fear of God in danger, or of thankfulness to God in deliverance.
A legkeményebb szívű és leggonoszabb tengerészeken is túltettem. Még veszély idején sem fogadtam magamba Istent, és megszabadulásaim során sem adtam hálát neki.