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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
151
CHAPTER
XIX.
Hurricane
off
the
Isle
of
France.--Its
consequences.--Death
of
Mr.
Slim.
We
were
now
to
windward
off
the
Isles
of
France
and
Bourbon,
and
nearly
up
with
the
land.
This
tract
of
ocean
is
the
scene
of
the
most
violent
hurricanes
which
are
experienced
on
the
external
world,
and
it
was
our
lot
to
encounter
one
of
the
most
terrific.
A
sudden
change
of
the
wind
from
S.
E.
to
N.
W.
warned
me
of
the
coming
storm.
The
ship
was
promptly
secured
for
a
gale;
as
much
of
the
water
which
had
been
stowed
on
deck,
was
secured
below,
as
the
consumption
of
provisions
had
made
room
for;
the
top
gallant
yards
and
masts
were
struck;
booms
sent
down
from
the
yards,
dead-lights
secured,
and
every
precaution
taken
to
weather
out
the
gale
without
damage.
I
never
experienced
a
more
awful
tempest.
The
wind
blew
for
some
time
with
such
violence
as
to
make
the
face
of
the
sea
quite
level,
the
pressure
of
the
atmosphere,
combined
with
its
rapid
motion,
being
so
great
as
to
prevent
the
swell
from
rising.
The
ship,
under
bare
poles,
drove
broadside
to
the
wind,
nearly
on
her
beam
ends.
When
the
violence
of
the
first
onset
abated,
the
sea
rose
with
a
swell
of
full
twenty
feet
perpendicular
elevation.
Having
a
strong
vessel,
although
she
was
very
deeply
laden,
I
did
not
mind
this
much;
but
when
the
wind
chopped
round
to
the
S.
W.,
a
heavy
gale,
bringing
with
it
a
large
sea
across
the
swell
which
the
Northwester
had
produced,
our
situation
was
not
devoid
of
danger.
The
tops
of
the
waves,
blown
off
by
the
wind,
flew
like
the
spray
of
a
waterfall,
and
filled
the
air
with
water
as
high
as
the
mast
head;
while
the
waves,
curled
and
lashed
into
foam
by
the
whistling
blast,
gave
the
whole
face
of
the
ocean
the
appearance
of
one
immense
cataract.
The
vessel,
assailed
by
the
crossing
sea
from
two
points
at
once,
laboured
excessively,
and
was
fairly
drowned
with
water.
She
frequently
plunged
the
bowsprit
quite
out
of
sight
beneath
the
wave,
and
had
it
not
been
of
unusually
firm
construction,
it
must
have
gone
to
pieces.
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