Both trailed to port, where we could not see them; and now the mizzen stood alone in sad and solitary grandeur, her flapping idle sails lighted up by the spreading conflagration, so that they were stamped very sharply upon the black add starry sky.

But the whole scene from the long-boat was one of startling brilliancy and horror.

The fire now filled the entire waist of the vessel, and the noise of it was as the rumble and roar of a volcano.

As for the light, I declare that it put many a star clean out, and dimmed the radiance of all the rest, as it flooded the sea for miles around, and a sea of molten glass reflected it.

My gorge rose at the long, low billows-sleek as black satin--lifting and dipping in this ghastly glare.