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Symzonia: Voyage of Discovery
·
Captain Adam Seaborn
152
Night
set
in
without
any
abatement
of
the
hurricane,
and
served
but
to
heighten
the
terror
of
its
effects.
The
water
in
this
part
of
the
world,
being
charged
with
animalculæ
or
phosphoric
matter,
assumed
in
the
darkness
of
the
night,
the
appearance
of
a
sea
of
liquid
fire,
boiling
and
whirling
with
ceaseless
agitation.
A
poet
would
not
need
a
better
type
from
which
to
describe
the
infernal
lake
provided
for
the
wicked.
Happily
we
rode
out
the
storm
until
nearly
day-light,
when
the
gale
having
abated,
and
there
being
every
indication
of
more
moderate
weather,
I
went
to
my
cabin
to
put
on
dry
clothes,
and
left
the
deck
in
charge
of
Mr.
Boneto,
to
whose
watch
Mr.
Slim
was
now
attached.
I
had
not
been
long
below
when
a
violent
shock,
like
that
of
a
ship
striking
her
side
against
a
floating
wreck,
induced
me
to
hasten
back.
I
found
my
people
in
the
greatest
alarm,
and
the
repeated
blows,
which
made
every
timber
in
the
ship
tremble,
were
indeed
sufficient
cause
of
apprehension.
I
soon
discovered
the
difficulty.
The
lashings
of
the
starboard
paddle
port
had
given
way;
the
port
was
open,
and
the
shutter
was
swinging
at
liberty.
The
gale
had
left
a
prodigious
sea,
which
rolled
the
ship
so
much
that
at
times
she
appeared
to
be
going
quite
over.
This
caused
the
heavy
port
shutter,
which
was
thirty
feet
long
by
three
feet
wide,
to
fly
quite
open,
and
then
return
against
the
side
with
frightful
violence.
It
appeared
that
the
lashings
had
been
chafed
in
consequence
of
the
boxes
being
badly
stowed;
and
that
the
weight
of
the
boxes
in
which
were
the
large
bones
and
all
my
scientific
collections,
together
with
the
weight
of
the
cable
stowed
upon
the
top
of
them,
had
burst
open
the
port,
through
which
the
big
bones,
all
my
curiosities
and
ological
treasures,
as
well
as
the
cable,
had
launched
into
the
sea!
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