Quotation from: The Little Lady of the Big House

Written by: Jack London

"Was it the chief stock that enabled her to out-endure the native
men?" Paula asked. "Or did you help her?"

"I rather think we helped each other toward the end," Graham replied.
"We were both out of our heads for short spells and long spells.
Sometimes it was one, sometimes the other, that was all in. We made
the land at sunset--that is, a wall of iron coast, with the surf
bursting sky-high. She took hold of me and clawed me in the water to
get some sense in me. You see, I wanted to go in, which would have
meant finish.