Be assured that for my own sake, as well as yours, I will not rashly encounter danger.

I will be cool, persevering, and prudent.
But success SHALL crown my endeavours.

Wherefore not?
Thus far I have gone, tracing a secure way over the pathless seas, the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph.

Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element?
What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?
My swelling heart involuntarily pours itself out thus.

But I must finish.