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Updated: June 9, 2025
The channel through which we picked our way was marked out by little buoys, half white and half black, and on either side the coral was just awash.
The natives were hurrying as fast as they could go in a body up the beach. Perhaps a half-mile from where they stood they could see a vast dark shape half awash in the heavy surf. Around it bobbed a few dark spots which they saw to be bidarkas. From these, and from the natives gathered at the edge of the water, there came, as the boys could see, one harpoon after another.
They say that for over ten minutes hardly anything was to be seen of the ship just the three masts and a bit of the forecastle head and of the poop all awash driving along in a smother of foam. It was a miracle that they found us, jammed together behind the forebits. It's clear that I meant business, because I was holding him by the throat still when they picked us up. He was black in the face.
He never forgot that lumpy shadow which was the herd, traveling fast in dust that obscured the nearest stars. The shadow humped here and there as the cattle crowded forward at a shuffling half trot, the click awash of their shambling feet treading close on one another.
The river was now high, and the banks, everywhere below the river level, and only protected from inundation by the levees, were overflowed. There was no standing room for an investing army; the lower guns were under water, and in the very forts the platforms were awash.
Even the wildest and dullest members of his far-scattered flock learned in time that life was sacred even the life of a half-dead stranger awash in the surf. That even a deserted or unpeopled wreck should be common property may not seem right to some people; but it seemed right to Father McQueen and surely he should know what was right and what was wrong!
"We'll wait till the next smash, then lower away, throw everything in, an' get outa this," the steward told the Ancient Mariner. "Lots of time. The schooner'll sink no faster when she's awash than she's sinkin' now." Even as he spoke, the scuppers were nearly level with the ocean, and her rolling in the big sea was sluggish.
But as her bows came round and presented themselves more obliquely to the gale she righted somewhat, and although she still careened until her lee rail was all but awash, she rode the furious seas as gallantly and buoyantly as a gull.
"I haven't expected anything else for the last three hours." The ill-fated sloop from which we made this narrow escape was so crushed in her collision with the bark that the sea battered her to pieces in the course of the night, and when I went on deck the next morning, a few ribs and shattered planks, floating awash at the end of the line astern, were all of her that remained.
Then he submerged to the awash condition, which in this boat just floated the searchlight out of water; and thus balanced, neither floating nor sinking nor rolling, but rising and falling with the long pulsing of the ground-swell, he watched through the periscope the approach of the enemy. It was an impressive spectacle, and to a citizen of a threatened country a disquieting one.
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