But she's making water, still.

Some of the seams must have opened.

I have been looking her over, and can't find out where it is; and we can do nothing until the gale has blown itself out, and we can get below and shift the cargo." Reuben found that the fore sail had been set while he was below; and the vessel was running, some twelve knots an hour, before the wind.

At one moment she was in a deep valley, then her stern mounted high on a following wave, and she seemed as if she must slide down, head foremost.

Higher and higher the wave rose, sending her forward with accelerated motion; then it passed along her, and she was on a level keel on its top, and seemed to stand almost still as the wave passed from under her.
In spite of the extra lashing which had been given, the hen coops, spars, and everything loose upon the decks had been swept away; and the bulwarks had, in several places, been stove in.