AN UNUSUAL STORM 83 



dark. Above the roar of the surf on the coast could be 

 heard the shouts of the paddlers furiously urging on the 

 canoe in front of the storm, but they were not able to make 

 the shore where I was on account of breakers. By great 

 good fortune they were enabled safely to round a headland 

 and land in comparative calm. Had the storm been from 

 the usual south-east direction, they could not have faced 

 it, but would have had to turn and run before it ; but 

 these early night storms came from a direction different 

 from that of the formal storms described previously. 



