He ventured to take a long view at sundown, and he found the experience saddening.

The enormous chequered floor of the sea divided with turbulent sweep two sombre hollow hemispheres.

Lurid red, livid blue, cold green shone in the sky, and were reflected in chance glints of horror from the spume of the charging seas.

Cold, cold it was all round; cold where the lowering black cloud hung in the east; cold where the west glowed with dull coppery patches; cold everywhere; and ah! how cold in the dead men's graves down in the darkling ooze! Ferrier was just thinking, "And the smacksmen go through this all the winter long!" when the skipper came up.
"It'll blow itself out now, sir, very soon, and a good job.

We've had one or two very near things, and I never had such an anxious time since I came to sea." "I suppose we didn't know the real danger ?" "Not when we shipped that big 'un sir.