Feel how she shakes beneath their blows, and see the spray flying over us." "I do not know, mistress; but we shall not drown." Nehushta was right, for after they had remained fast a little longer they were saved, thus: Suddenly the wind dropped, then it rose again in a last furious squall, driving before it a very mountain of water.

This vast billow, as it rushed shorewards, caught the galley in its white arms and lifted her not only off the rock whereon she lay, but over the further reefs, to cast her down again upon a bed of sand and shells, within a stone's throw of the beach, where she remained fast, never to shift more.
Now also, as though its work were done, the gale ceased, and, as is common on the Syrian coast, the sea sank rapidly, so that by nightfall it was calm again.

Indeed, three hours before sunset, had both of them been strong and well, they might have escaped to the land by wading.

But this was not to be, for now what Nehushta had feared befell, and when she was least fitted to bear it, being worn out with anguish of mind and weariness of body, pain took sudden hold of Rachel, of which the end was that, before midnight, there, in that broken vessel upon a barren coast where no man seemed to live, a daughter was born to her.
"Let me see the child," said Rachel.

So Nehushta showed it to her by the light of a lamp which burned in the cabin.
It was a small child, but very white, with blue eyes and dark hair that curled.