So we floated buoyantly and safely upon the summit of vast waves, and a storm that would have destroyed a ship of the European fashion scarcely injured this in the slightest degree.

It was an indestructible as a raft and as buoyant as a bubble; so we rode out the gale, and the death which the Kosekin invoked did not come at all.
The storm was but short-lived; the clouds dispersed, and soon went scudding over the sky; the sea went down.

The rowers had to take their oars once more, and the reaction that followed upon their recent rejoicing was visible in universal gloom and dejection.

As the clouds dispersed the aurora lights came out more splendid than ever, and showed nothing but melancholy faces.

The rowers pulled with no life or animation; the officers stood about sighing and lamenting; Almah and I were the only ones that rejoiced over this escape from death.
Joms passed.