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Updated: June 3, 2025
We put macintosh capes almost right over our heads, and stood under the trees to avoid the raindrops.... The waterproof capes, to say nothing of their hindering our shooting, let the water through in the most shameless fashion; and under the trees, though at first, certainly, the rain did not reach us, afterwards the water collected on the leaves suddenly rushed through, every branch dripped on us like a waterspout, a chill stream made its way under our neck-ties, and trickled down our spines.... This was 'quite unpleasant, as Yermolai expressed it.
But but he had come out to abolish one wolf, that bear; not one hundred and twenty-nine. The white wolf dropped without a sound upon the bear's great, broad back. The half-dozen old wolves followed him like figures moved by a single lever. The pack sucked in with the rush of a waterspout. The bear vanished under a wave of fangs and tails, as a sinking boat vanishes beneath the billows.
It would seem that a waterspout is caused by a whirlwind entering a cloud and gathering vapour together by its rotary action into such a heavy mass that it descends in the funnel shape described.
"You know as well as I do that there are no rocks in the channel." "But suppose she had run against this piece of iron?" said the engineer, showing the broken cylinder. "What, that bit of pipe!" exclaimed Pencroft in a tone of perfect incredulity. "My friends," resumed Harding, "you remember that before she foundered the brig rose on the summit of a regular waterspout?"
In her keeping lay three things more sacred than all else to Mohammedan hearts Kaukab el Durri, the Great Pearl Star; Ha jar el As wad, the Black Stone; and Myzab, the Golden Waterspout. Awed, silenced, the Legionaries stood there in the lower gallery, peering into the blood-stained nacelle.
The whirling Nemesis descended upon the pirates; their cries of anguish came faintly through the roar and hiss of water; crude Dyak prayers, shrieked by terrified worshipers, smote upon their ears, and finally, like a whirlwind, the waterspout pounced upon its victims.
"Yes, captain," replied Herbert. "Well, would you like to know what occasioned that waterspout? It was this," said the engineer, holding up the broken tube. "That?" returned Pencroft. "Yes! This cylinder is all that remains of a torpedo!" "A torpedo!" exclaimed the engineer's companions. "And who put the torpedo there?" demanded Pencroft, who did not like to yield.
Every sea that the vessel shatters sends up a flying waterspout; and the frost acts with amazing suddenness, so that the spars, the rigging, and the deck gather layer after layer of ice. Supposing the vessel is employed in fishing, then the men in the forecastle crouch round the little fire, or shiver on their soaked beds, and perhaps growl out a few words of more or less cheerful talk.
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"Well, Mello," said the captain, trying to appear indifferent, "do you also think the frigate is lost because the branded man is on board?" "Yes," replied Mello, briefly, "if God does not perform a miracle." At this moment a terrific crash was heard, and with loud cries the sailors rushed on deck. "A waterspout; we are sinking!" they exclaimed, terror-stricken. "Help, captain, help!"
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