The survivors crept again on board their ship, as it now lay, and as it still remains, keel to the waves, a monument of the sea's potency.

In still weather, under a cloudless sky, in those seasons when that ill-named ocean, the Pacific, suffers its vexed shores to rest, she lies high and dry, the spray scarce touching her--the hugest structure of man's hands within a circuit of a thousand miles--tossed up there like a schoolboy's cap upon a shelf; broken like an egg; a thing to dream of.
The unfriendly consuls of Germany and Britain were both that morning in Matautu, and both displayed their nobler qualities.

De Coetlogon, the grim old soldier, collected his family and kneeled with them in an agony of prayer for those exposed.

Knappe, more fortunate in that he was called to a more active service, must, upon the striking of the _Adler_, pass to his own consulate.

From this he was divided by the Vaisingano, now a raging torrent, impetuously charioting the trunks of trees.