In looking forward to the dangers we had still to encounter, I was led closely to examine on what our hope of preservation was fixed.

Should it please Him who had hitherto blessed us with his presence and protecting care, to put our faith again to the test, how we could bear it, how we should feel at the prospect of going down to the bottom of the great deep.

I felt a particular satisfaction that our great journey had first been accomplished; if this had not been the case it would have been a sting in my conscience.

But now an awful resignation was experienced, and it came before me as an imperious duty to be resigned to life or death; and the joyful hope resounded in my heart, All will be well to those who love not their lives unto death.
The presentiment of danger which this passage describes was speedily fulfilled, as was also the hopeful promise by which it was accompanied.
They were detained at Cherbourg until the 13th, waiting for a vessel.
Leaving port early that morning, they landed in Guernsey the next day; and it was in going ashore that they were exposed to some danger of their lives.

John Yeardley thus relates the occurrence:-- I descended first into a little boat, and standing on the side to take my M.Y.down, the man not holding the boat secure to the ship, our weight pushed it from us, and we plunged headlong into the sea.