I believe I repeated the words, “Oh that it had been but one!” a thousand times; and my desires were so moved by it, that when I spoke the words my hands would clinch together, and my fingers would press the palms of my hands, so that if I had had any soft thing in my hand I should have crushed it involuntarily; and the teeth in my head would strike together, and set against one another so strong, that for some time I could not part them again.
Közben néha önkéntelenül is fohászra kulcsoltam a kezem, és az izgatottságtól rendkívüli feszültség költözött belém. Talán ezeknek a hajósoknak a sorsa, talán az enyém rendelte így, de nem leltem társaságra a hajó szerencsétlenségét követően.