It was long after dark when we reached so far.
We had passed the watering boats some distance further down on their way to the ship.

Our sudden meeting in the dark on the lonely river, had a singular and romantic effect.

Being anxious to join the gig, we pushed on, and at midnight were surprised by a loud call from Captain Wickham, who lay beneath the shadow of a high bank.

It was a strange sound, this English hail, to hear echoed in these wild hills, where only the shrill cry of the savage had been borne on the blast before! THUNDERSTORM.
I was sorry to find, that the tide did not at present rise sufficient to admit the large boats into the fresh water, so that getting a load would have been a very long operation, had it not been for a tremendous fall of rain that followed a thunderstorm, deluging every pool, and at once affording the means of filling the casks.

This storm began at South-East and drew round by east to North-West, from which quarter it blew strong for an hour.