And as I watched them there came to me the thought that this was my last sight on earth, and I could only hope that the life which was so swiftly approaching its end might live again somewhere among those glittering orbs.

So I thought; and with these thoughts I drifted on, I cannot tell how long, until at length there appeared a vast black mass, where the open sky above me terminated, and where the lustre of the stars and the light of the heavens were all swallowed up in utter darkness.
This, then, I thought, is the end.

Here, amid this darkness, I must make the awful plunge and find my death I fell upon my knees in the bottom of the boat and prayed.

As I knelt there the boat drew nearer, the black mass grew blacker.

The current swept me on.