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hurricane is not very wide. Don't you see 

 where the experience came in ? Presently 

 he shouts out, for he had now to halloa to be 

 heard 



" Do you hear anything unusual ? " 



" Yes," we all replied, as it was not difficult 

 to hear a rumbling, roaring, terrifying sound, 

 resembling heavy breakers, or tumbling water. 



Then he shouted again, " Secure yourselves 

 with your ropes, and grasp something solid 

 with your arms, and hold for your lives ; for a 

 tidal wave the roar of which we hear is 

 right upon us." 



Here was where experience saved us again, 

 for scarcely had we carried out his precau- 

 tions, when, by a flash of lightning, we saw 

 the mountain of water coming, rolling, tossing, 

 tumbling, as if ready to engulf our almost 

 helpless little craft. When it tumbled on us 

 over she went on her beam ends, that is, on 

 her side, and we were all several feet under 

 water. The buoyancy of her cargo and the 

 passing along of that terrible roller soon 

 allowed her to right herself, lifting us all 

 from an unwelcome bath. As soon as we 

 got breath to speak, the captain shouted 



