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Updated: May 9, 2025
"The three of us my two brothers and myself had crossed over to the islands about two o'clock P. M., and had soon nearly loaded the smack with fine fish, which, we all remarked, were more plenty that day than we had ever known them. It was just seven, by my watch, when we weighed and started for home, so as to make the worst of the Stroem at slack water, which we knew would be at eight.
Once, when looking into Low Dutch, I found, in a whole page, only one word similar to English; stroem, like stream, and it signified tide'. E. 'I remember having seen a Dutch Sonnet, in which I found this word, roesnopies. Nobody would at first think that this could be English; but, when we enquire, we find roes, rose, and nopie, knob; so we have rosebuds'.
It was the hour of the slack but the sea still heaved in mountainous waves from the effects of the hurricane. I was borne violently into the channel of the Stroem, and in a few minutes was hurried down the coast into the 'grounds' of the fishermen. Those who drew me on board were my old mates and daily companions but they knew me no more than they would have known a traveller from the spirit-land.
I knew what he meant by that one word well enough I knew what he wished to make me understand. With the wind that now drove us on, we were bound for the whirl of the Stroem, and nothing could save us!
"At first I could not make out what he meant but soon a hideous thought flashed upon me. I dragged my watch from its fob. It was not going. I glanced at its face by the moonlight, and then burst into tears as I flung it far away into the ocean. It had run down at seven o'clock! We were behind the time of the slack, and the whirl of the Stroem was in full fury!
It had a complete flush deck, with only a small hatch near the bow, and this hatch it had always been our custom to batten down when about to cross the Stroem, by way of precaution against the chopping seas. But for this circumstance we should have foundered at once for we lay entirely buried for some moments.
"You perceive that in crossing the Stroem channel, we always went a long way up above the whirl, even in the calmest weather, and then had to wait and watch carefully for the slack but now we were driving right upon the pool itself, and in such a hurricane as this!
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