The Bookshelf for boys and girls Book of Wonders and Curious Things (1912)
University Society, New York · New York: University Society · leaf 215
r pilot. I have seena waterspout make for a large fleet of rice-junks,and the scattering of the queer-looking craftunder their brown sails and dashing sweepslooked comically like the flight of a flock ofstartled quail. Sometimes a spout can be broken by the firingof a cannon close by; and then the… … THE BROKEN COLUMNS OF WATER DROPPED IN TONS ON THE FORWARD DECK. pected danger—the waterspout. It most oftenmakes its appearance beneath a black and lower-ing sky; but sometimes they start up mys-teriously in clear weather to move along theoceans rim in queer fantastic attitudes, lookingfor all the…
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