It showed the distant land with every rock and house and bush.

It showed the wharf and the watchers on it; among them Hugh noted a man embracing his sweetheart, as he thought under cover of the cloud.
But most of all it showed that galley down to her last rope and even the lines of caulking on her deck.

Oh, and now they saw the rowers, for they lay in heaps about the oars.

Some of them even hung over these limply, moving to and fro as they swung, while others were stretched upon the benches as though they slept.

They were dead--all dead; the wind following the meteor and blowing straight on shore told them that they were certainly all dead.