. Ninety-three . son l)anner of battle, amid which the shipsappeared and disappeared like phantoms. In fiont tlie black skeleton of the corvette showed against the redbackground. The white banner, with its JJeitr-de-Jis, could Ije seen floating fromthe main. OS XINETY- THREE. The two men seated in the little l)()at kept silence. The triangularshallows of the Minquiers, a sort of submarine Trinacrium, is largerthan the entire island of Jersey ; the sea covers it ; it has for culmi-nating ijoiut a platform, Avliieh even the highest tides do not reach, fromwhence six mighty rocks detach themselve
. Ninety-three . son l)anner of battle, amid which the shipsappeared and disappeared like phantoms. In fiont tlie black skeleton of the corvette showed against the redbackground. The white banner, with its JJeitr-de-Jis, could Ije seen floating fromthe main. OS XINETY- THREE. The two men seated in the little l)()at kept silence. The triangularshallows of the Minquiers, a sort of submarine Trinacrium, is largerthan the entire island of Jersey ; the sea covers it ; it has for culmi-nating ijoiut a platform, Avliieh even the highest tides do not reach, fromwhence six mighty rocks detach themselves toward the northeast, rangedin a straight line, and producing the effect of a great wall, which hascrumbled lieiu and there. The strait Ijetween the plateau and the sixreefs is only practicable to Ixiats drawing very little water. Beyondthis strait is the open sea. The sailor who had undertaken tlie cciimuand of the Itoat made forthis strait. By that means li<- put tlic ^Iiii([iiiei-s between the licdtlc ami. the little bark. Tie mannnivrod the narrow channel skillfully, avoidingthe reefs to larboard and starlioard. The rocks now masked the lurid light of the horizon, and the aAvful u]iroar of tlic cannonading,Ixgan to lessen as the distance increased; but the contiiumnce of thereports ])rov(>d that the of thcame h^ss dark : the rays, againstwhich the darkness struggleil, wid(Uied : the burst into jets of light,and tlie to)is of the waves gave back white reflectious. Day a])]>(^are(l. Ihe bojit was out of danger so far ;is tlie eiieiuy w;is coiicirued, liutthe most diflieull paii of tht> task remained. She was saved lromgra]>e-
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