Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 251
the no signs of the Kearsarge. She s gone!exclaimed the lieutenant. The vessels we had seen turned out to befour small schooners and a sloop, ostensiblyfishermen; and toward them we made ourway, dropping our anchor about five oclockin the afternoon. The breakers, rolling ina mile and a half away,… … BIRDS ON RONCADOR REEF. {SEE PAGE 817.) mean time we had caught the gleam of the surffrom the deck below, and before long thewhole sweep of the breakers coming into viewoffered a most magnificent spectacle. There was the boundless ocean, with thewaves sweeping in until suddenly, in a line,more than…
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