Crusoe's island . awed and silent, for we knew that thespirit of God was there, and darkness was his secretplace; that his pavilion round about him were darkwaters and thick clouds of the skies. One large black mass of clouds rose up on the weatherquarter; a low moaning came over the sea, and the airbecame suddenly chill, and trie waters rippled around us,and were tossed about by the unseen Power, and wetrembled, for we beheld the coming of the storm thatwas soon to burst upon us in all the majesty of its a while there was the stillness of death; then theLord thundered in the heavens
Crusoe's island . awed and silent, for we knew that thespirit of God was there, and darkness was his secretplace; that his pavilion round about him were darkwaters and thick clouds of the skies. One large black mass of clouds rose up on the weatherquarter; a low moaning came over the sea, and the airbecame suddenly chill, and trie waters rippled around us,and were tossed about by the unseen Power, and wetrembled, for we beheld the coming of the storm thatwas soon to burst upon us in all the majesty of its a while there was the stillness of death; then theLord thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his L6 CRUSOES ISLAND. voice, and out of the darkness came the storm. In fierceand sudden gusts it came, terrible in its resistless might;lashing the sea into a white foam, tossing and whirlingoverhead, with its thousand arms outstretched; graspingup the waters as it raged over the deep, and scourgingthem madly through the air, while it moaned and shriekedlike the dread spirit of BOAT IN A STORM. Every one of us cowered down in the boat to keep herbalanced. The spray washed over us fearfully, and thesail shook so in the wind, having let go all, that wethought it would tear the mast out. At this time wewere about three leagues from the end of the island,which was the nearest point then in sight. As the cloudspread by the attraction of the land, the whole island be-came wrapped in a dark shroud of mist, aud in half anhour we could discern nothing but the gloom of thestorm around us, as we bore down toward the darkestpart on the lea. Our lamp was now quenched by a heavysea, and being unable to distinguish the points of thecompass, we were fearful we should miss the island andbe carried off so far that we could never reach it there was a lull we tried to haul in our sheet,but a sudden flaw striking us once, the boat lay overtill she buried her gunwales, and the sea broke heavilyover her lee side, and the crew at the same time
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