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Updated: May 15, 2025

Water began to lose its effect upon the scorched and shriveling planks; the resin oozed out from the knots in the wood, the seams burst open, and the tar, melted by the heat, followed the rollings of the vessel, and formed fantastic patterns about the deck. Then to complete our perplexity, the wind shifted sud- denly round to the northwest, whence it blew a perfect hur- ricane.

Jules Verne - The Survivors of the Chancellor