The seething, hissing sound in the air around her kept increasing, and made her giddy; a confusion of wild sounds, that grew louder and ever louder, seemed to fill her brain; and before her eyes there was nothing but a whirl of scudding flakes of white.

A mass of sand-laden foaming water appeared then suddenly to rise before her with a towering crest; she heard one loud cry of terror from different voices; the brig seemed lifted high in the air; the mainmast tottered; and a suffocating deluge of water came crashing down upon her, nearly carrying her with it down the cabin stairs, where she was clinging.

Again and again it came, and her one thought now was to hold fast.
When she returned to consciousness again, Salve was by her side.

They were fastened to the same rope, and all the crew had come aft, and lashed themselves there.

The brig lay over on her side upon the inner bank, with her stern up, and with the mainmast lying over the side.