The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . e in the evening; and the monsoon, in general, setsin during the night. It is attended with such a thunder-stormas can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seenthat phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally be-gins with violent blasts of wind, which are succeeded byfloods of rain. For some hours, lightning is seen withoutintermission ; sometimes, it only illumines the sky, and showsthe clouds near the horizon; at others, it discovers the dis-tant hills, or vessels, and l
The tragedy of the seas; or, Sorrow on the ocean, lake, and river, from shipwreck, plague, fire and famine .. . e in the evening; and the monsoon, in general, setsin during the night. It is attended with such a thunder-stormas can scarcely be imagined by those who have only seenthat phenomenon in a temperate climate. It generally be-gins with violent blasts of wind, which are succeeded byfloods of rain. For some hours, lightning is seen withoutintermission ; sometimes, it only illumines the sky, and showsthe clouds near the horizon; at others, it discovers the dis-tant hills, or vessels, and leaves all else in darkness, whenin an instant it appears in vivid and successive flashes, andexhibits the nearest objects in all the brightness of all this time, the distant thunder never ceases to roll,and is only silenced by some nearer peal, which bursts uponthe ear with such a sudden and tremendous crash, as canscarcely fail to strike the most insensible heart with length, the thunder ceases, and nothing is heard butthe continued pouring of the rain, and the rushing of themighty THE FIGHTS AND ADVENTURES OF THE CREW OF THE RUSSIAN AMERICAN COMPANYS SHIP THE ST. NICHOLAI, A Sojourn of a Year amongst the hostile Natives of theNorthWest Coast of America; November, 1808. BY THE SUPERCARGO.
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