For this raft was so unwieldy , and so overloaded , that after I was enter 'd the little cove , where I had landed the rest of my goods , not being able to guide it so handily as I did the other , it overset , and threw me and all my cargo into the water ;
He spoke with the diffidence of a man who knew how slight a thing would overset the delicate organisation of the mind , and yet with the confidence of a man who had slowly won his assurance out of personal endurance and distress .
In a word , it took us with such a fury , that it overset the boat at once ; and separating us as well from the boat , as from one another , gave us not time hardly to say , o god ! For we were all swallowed up in a moment .
