At his word the galley started, and the rowers pulled out to sea with long, regular strokes.

I was anxious to know what the expedition was aimed at, and what were the animals that we expected to get; but I could not make out Almah's explanations.
Her words suggested something of vague terror, vast proportions, and indescribable ferocity; but my ignorance of the language prevented me from learning anything more.
We went along the coast for a few miles, and then came to the mouth of a great river, which seemed to flow from among the mountains.

The current was exceedingly swift, and as I looked back it seemed to me that it must be the very stream which had borne me here into this remote world.

I afterward found out that this was so--that this stream emerges from among the mountains, flowing from an unknown source.

It was over this that I had been borne in my sleep, after I had emerged from the subterranean darkness, and it was by this current that I had been carried into the open sea.