The watch off duty was sent below, for there was nothing that could be done on deck; and the water swept over her in such masses as to threaten, at times, to carry everything before it.

One man had had his leg broken.

Several had been seriously bruised and hurt.
"This is terrible, Bill," Reuben said, as he went below.
"Ay, lad; I have been at sea, man and boy, over forty years, and it's the worst sea I ever saw.

I expect to see her masts go out of her, before long.

Nothing could stand such straining as this.