But if I can express at this distance the thoughts I had about me at that time, I was in tenfold more horror of mind upon account of my former convictions, and the having returned from them to the resolutions I had wickedly taken at first, than I was at death itself; and these, added to the terror of the storm, put me into such a condition that I can by no words describe it.
Pero si me es posible expresar, al cabo de tanto tiempo, lo que pensaba entonces, diré que estaba diez veces más asustado por haber abandonado mis resoluciones y haber retomado mis antiguas convicciones, que por el peligro de muerte ante el que me encontraba. Todo esto, sumado al terror de la tempestad, me puso en un estado de ánimo, que no podría describir con palabras.