We thought she was over." "I thought so, too," the captain said.

"Luckily she has got three hundred tons of iron on board, and it's all stowed at the bottom of the cargo, so that helped her up again; but it was touch and go with her, for half a minute.
"And now, gentlemen, if you will take my advice you will just look round, and then go below and turn in.

Now you can do so easily.
Another hour, and there will be no keeping a footing." The captain was right.

In less than the time he named, a terrific sea had got up.

The Paramatta had already made more than one circuit of the compass.