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.
A tengerészektől hallottam, hogy mi történik, mert attól a pillanattól fogva, hogy engem a csónakba hurcoltak, félholt voltam az ijedtségtől. Szívemet megbénította a gondolataim bűne miatti borzalom és a félelem attól, ami még előttem áll.