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Updated: May 8, 2025
Talking with Captain Tombarel on the poop, when a sudden exclamation from him "Mon Dieu!" His visage whitens! I follow the direction of his gaze to eastward! I behold! eight kilomètres perhaps away , ten monstrous waterspouts, reaching up, up, high enough all apparently in one straight line, with intervals of nine hundred mètres, very regularly placed.
We were picked up the same morning by the French ship 'Commerce de Paris, Captain Tombarel." Here, in a single column of a newspaper, what strange, touching pictures do we find of seamen's dangers, vicissitudes, gallantry, generosity!
They do not wander, dance, nor waver, as waterspouts do; nor are they at all lily-shaped, like waterspouts: but ten hewn pillars of water, with uniform diameter from top to bottom, only a little twisted here and there, and, as I divine, fifty mètres in girth. Five, ten, stupendous minutes we look, Captain Tombarel mechanically repeating and repeating under his breath "Mon Dieu!"
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