But, alas! falling early into the seafaring life, which of all lives is the most destitute of the fear of God, though His terrors are always before them; I say, falling early into the seafaring life, and into seafaring company, all that little sense of religion which I had entertained was laughed out of me by my messmates; by a hardened despising of dangers, and the views of death, which grew habitual to me by my long absence from all manner of opportunities to converse with anything but what was like myself, or to hear anything that was good or tended towards it.
A szívemet megkeményítették az élet veszélyei és a halál látványa, amelyhez kezdtem hozzászokni. Ez idő alatt nem volt lehetőségem, hogy hozzám hasonló, jóravaló emberrel találkozzam és enyhítsek a helyzetemen általa.