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All he did in fact, all he had time to do was to call Third Mate Lorentzen, also an expert in waterspouts. On rushed the Slavonia, heading west by north: nearer came the waterspout, heading south by east. It soon became evident that the spout could not get by before the Slavonia reached it, and it was now too late to slow up indeed, a collision was manifestly unavoidable from the start.
Dawson's question made the reality of his position moneyless, resourceless, friendless burst over him like a waterspout. Dawson saw and understood; but it was not his cue to lessen that sense of helplessness.
The dweller amongst mountains must be always exposed to their dilapidation; and a season of unusual rain, continuing to a much later period than usual, produced an earth-avalanche. A sensible difference was perceptible in the atmosphere; but the rain again began to descend, and for hours pelted like the dischage of a waterspout.
Up, up, up, it went, until it was lost to sight, but there were no falling drops, and not even a spray came from the watery shafts. "There is a terrible power to it," the professor said. "May it prove our salvation!" The ship was lowered about a hundred feet away from the waterspout. All around them the ground was vibrating with the force of the fluid.
"Ja, mistour yes, the mistour," cried one of the Icelandic guides in a terrified tone. It was the first time he had spoken. "What does this mysterious word signify?" I anxiously inquired. "Look," said my uncle. I looked down upon the plain below, and I saw a vast, a prodigious volume of pulverized pumice stone, of sand, of dust, rising to the heavens in the form of a mighty waterspout.
Using the latter liquid, the ball must be brought much nearer, or a much greater quantity of electricity is necessary to raise it. "If, in this experiment, we let the ball swing to and fro, the little waterspout will travel over its immature sea, carrying its whirlpools along with it. When it breaks up, a portion of the liquid and with it anything it may contain remains attached to the ball.
He took along compressed air cylinders to supply an atmosphere he could breathe, and some food to eat, for it appears our giant friends are something of inventors in their way. The current of water bore him to the surface of the earth, and he was cast up on the ocean, in what was probably taken for a waterspout if any one saw it. "Then a strange thing happened.
We supposed that it must be near dawn, for it seemed as if we had been two whole nights on the raft, when we both heard the sound of breakers. Our fate would soon thus be decided. As far as we were able, we gazed around when we reached the summit of a sea. There were the breakers; we could see the white foam flying up like a vast waterspout against the leaden sky.
The whole of the waterspout had poured from the sky without any warning of diminution, as if it had slided perpendicularly into a gulf beneath. None knew what had become of it; flakes replaced the hailstones, the snow began to fall slowly. No more swell: the sea flattened down. Such sudden cessations are peculiar to snowstorms.
For ten minutes the crew of the Etta watched it until, when more than a mile distant, the waterspout collapsed more suddenly than it had formed and from the foam-covered water a great wave rolled outward, spreading until the Etta rocked in its path. "Thank goodness, that trouble's over," said Dick to the captain.
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