One native was saved, but he is all smashed up.

The others were never seen again." Iris by degrees learnt the sad chronicles of the Jackson family.

She was moved to tears.

She remembered the doctor's hesitancy, and her own idle phrase--"a huge coffin." Outside the roaring waves pounded upon the iron walls.
Were they not satiated?
This tragedy had taken all the grandeur out of the storm.

It was no longer a majestic phase of nature's power, but an implacable demon, bellowing for a sacrifice.