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Updated: May 20, 2025
He run up the Cut-Through a little ways, and then come about, and back he comes again, never slacking speed a mite, and running close to the shoal as he could shave, and all the time going through the bloodiest kind of pantomimes. And past he goes, to wheel 'round and commence all over again. Thinks I, "Why don't he ease up and lay us aboard? He's got all the weapons there is. Is he scart?"
As I prepared to wade across George, the black boy, shouted over his shoulder towards a slowly swaying cloud in the deep pool overhung with foremost flounces of the jungle. The cloud was a shoal of sea mullet. Save for a clear margin of about three feet, the fish filled the pond an alert, greyish-blue mass edged with cream-coloured sand.
It will be seen, by the annexed chart, that there are before Copenhagen two channels by which the city can be passed. Between the two lies a shoal, called the Middle Ground. The inner, known as the King's Channel, lay under the guns of the defences which had been hurriedly improvised for the present emergency.
"All over the shoal the waves leap up in pinnacles, in volcanic points, sharp as stalagmites, and in this form run hither and yon in all possible directions, colliding with and crashing against others of equal fury and greatness a very carnival of wild and drunken waves; the waters hurled upward in huge masses of white.
A Chinese fleet of about 15 war-junks lay moored in shoal water, under the command of Admiral Kwang.
As soon as we had finished our meal, we once more embarked, and stood along the shore to the S.W., but the lake was so shoal, that I was every moment apprehensive we should ground.
He therefore ordered De Rougemont who had assumed the command after Colville was wounded to run past the entrenchments without trying to crush their fire, and steam on to Dongola. To support and cover the movement, the three batteries of artillery under Major Parsons were brought into action from the swampy island of Artagasha, which was connected at this season with the right bank by a shoal.
By and by the Duke of Yorke with his books showed us the very place and manner, and that it was not our design or expectation to have done this, but only to have landed on the Fly, and burned some of their store; but being come in, we spied those ships, and with our long boats, one by one, fired them, our ships running all aground, it being so shoal water.
For some ten minutes had the chase continued one vessel following directly in the wake of the other. The barque was now close into the land, and as if about to enter the river's mouth, while the cutter was a half-mile astern, and just opposite the longitudinal edge of the shoal.
If he had not been drowned off Bolderhead Neck, and had been hidden away in this wilderness so many years, he had gone to his account now. I was sorry I had come down here in the Sea Spell; but being here I had to somewhat wait upon Captain Tugg's pleasure before I could get away. We warped the Sea Spell off the shoal and found her uninjured. She had scarcely started a plank.
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