It is too deep here for the horses." John turned accordingly, and followed Muller's horse some three hundred yards up the bank till they came to a spot where the water ran with an angry music, and there was a great swirl of eddies.
"Here is the place," said Muller; "you must make haste through.

The house is just the other side, and it will be better to get there before the tempest breaks." "It is all very well," said John, "but I cannot see an inch before me; I don't know where to drive." "Drive straight ahead; the water is not more than three feet deep, and there are no rocks." "I am not going, and that is all about it." "You must go, Captain Niel.

You cannot stop here, and if you can we will not.

Look there, man!" and he pointed to the east, which now presented a truly awful and magnificent sight.
Down, right on to them, its centre bowed out like the belly of a sail by the weight of the wind behind, swept the great storm-cloud, while over all its surface the lightning played unceasingly, appearing and disappearing in needles of fire, and twisting and writhing serpentwise round and about its outer edges.

So brilliant was the intermittent light that it appeared to fire the revolving pillars of mud-coloured cloud beneath, and gave ghastly peeps of river and bank and plain, miles upon miles away.