That coaster has a cargo of tar and naval stores on board; and, capturing her this evening, they have thought to extinguish our lantern by the brighter and fiercer flame of their own.
But le Feu-Follet will shine again when their fire is dead!" "Is there, then, no danger that the brulot will yet come down upon us--she is fearfully near!" "Not sufficiently so to do us harm; more especially as our sails are damp with dew.

Here she cannot come so long as our cable stands; and as that is under water where she lies, it cannot burn.

In half an hour there will be little of her left, and we will enjoy the bonfire while it lasts." And, now the fear of danger was past, it was a sight truly to be enjoyed.

Every anxious and curious face in the lugger was to be seen, under that brilliant light, turned toward the glowing mass as the sunflower follows the great source of heat in his track athwart the heavens; while the spars, sails, guns, and even the smallest object on board the lugger started out of the obscurity of night into the brightness of such an illumination, as if composing parts of some brilliant scenic display.

But so fierce a flame soon exhausted itself.
Ere long the felucca's masts fell, and with them a pyramid of fire.