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and the black the Erebus; the dotted line the passage the 
ships made through the water. You are to suppose your- 
self looking down on their decks, and the strokes across 
the ships are the way the yards were braced. I cannot 
Davis's Diagram of the Collision Between the Erebus 
and Terror. 
attempt any sketches of the ships with my pen and ink, 
it would be impossible to give the slightest effect of the 
intense darkness, etc. You may imagine the force with 
which the Erebus struck us when I tell you that her spare 
anchor in the act of falling must have come in collision 
with our side, which drove the palms of it right into her 
