TKHfren tbe IRortb Sea Tftages 19 



Cowed by their terrible experience aboard this battered 

 barque, they shuffled along the soddened decks wearily 

 and with vacant stare, indifferent alike to kindly 

 inquiries and to the fact that they had at last reached 

 a haven of refuge. When the seas were running at 

 their highest two of the sailors were swept overboard 

 like a flash, and their dying shrieks were smothered 

 by the louder shrieks of the hurricane. Another of the 

 men had his leg broken. He lay helpless in the captain's 

 cabin. 



On board the trawler that brought her in a be- 

 grimed member of the crew told of how the barque, 

 before they picked her up, had been in tow of another 

 trawler, and how that one of the men of this latter 

 vessel got fast in the bight of the warp and was cut in 

 two, whereupon the barque was cast off to the mercy 

 of the gale again. 



But such harrowing incidents as these were many 

 during that memorable storm. Yet how gently, and 

 how insinuatingly, did it not come from over the ocean 

 to the little promontory ! A discoloured swell under a 

 blue sky in the daytime ; a nightfall troubled with 

 hollow draughts of air and sighing sounds that mingled 

 weirdly with the dull rumour of the sea. That was all. 



