See that the boats are all ready to tow us along.

What a grand sight that burning ship is! "Ah, I see now.

She is aground with the ebb tide.

They could not move her, so they have fired her instead.

There are her boats rowing for shore with her crew in them!" It was a strange, grand sight, watching the flames enwrap the doomed vessel from stem to stern, till she was one sheet of rosy light.