boatsides

Updated: July 22, 2025

The boil and splash of water, breaking of oars, splintering of boatsides; the infuriate cries, oaths, and blind striving of the rowers, some intent on getting through at all hazards, some turned combatants, striking or parrying with their heavy oaken blades; the sound of blows on breaking heads; plunges into the foaming brine; blood trickling down faces and necks, and reddening naked arms such was the catastrophe seen in its details from the overhanging gunwale of the galley.

Lewis Wallace - The Prince of India — Volume 02