Note 4 — Section 228. A TOUCHING SCENE AT SEA. II.
Reading edition
[1] Place ‘said — informant (here Gewährsmann, m.)’ after ‘that — beheld’.
[2] = were over.
[3] as — ghost, geisterbleich.
[4] = in.
[5] = said; audibly = aloud.
[6] Ein Schluchzen entrang sich, followed by the Dat.
[7] to face death, dem Tode ins Antlitz schauen, or dem Tode trotz´bieten.