As for any hope of being rescued by Commander Farragut, that had to be renounced completely. We were being swept westward, and I estimate that our comparatively moderate speed reached twelve miles per hour.
Había que descartar ya completamente toda esperanza de ser salvados por el comandante Farragut, pues íbamos hacia el Oeste y a una velocidad que, aunque relativamente moderada, yo estimaba no inferior a unas doce millas por hora.