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In this connection the remarkable experience reported by the officers of the Danish steamship Nordby, on the day preceding the eruption, is of much interest, as seeming to show great convulsions of the sea bottom at a point several hundred miles from Martinique. "On May 5th," the captain said, "we touched at St. Michael's for water.
We were about 700 miles off Cape Henlopen. "No, sir; you couldn't get me through a thing like that again for $10,000. None of us was hurt, and the old Nordby herself pulled through all right, but I'd sooner stay ashore than see waves without wind and lightning without thunder." Careful inspection showed that the fiery stream which so completely destroyed St.
"Then, as quick as you could toss a biscuit over its rail, the Nordby dropped regularly dropped three or four feet down into the sea. No sooner did it do this than big waves, that looked like they were coming from all directions at once, began to smash against our sides. This was queerer yet, because the water a minute before was as smooth as I ever saw it.
Lying, as it does, exposed to the full force of the North Sea gales, it yet serves to protect the harbour of Esbjerg from these storms. It is eight miles long, and three miles at its broadest part. A trim little steamer will carry you across from Esbjerg to Nordby the fishing town on the east coast of Fanö in twenty minutes. Nordby is both quaint and picturesque.
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