Mardi, Volume II coverCHAPTER 82
CHAPTER 82

They Sail from Night to Day

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Ere long the three canoes lurched heavily in a violent swell. Like palls, the clouds swept to and fro, hooding the gibbering winds. At every head-beat wave, our arching prows reared up, and shuddered; the night ran out in rain.
Whither to turn we knew not; nor what haven to gain; so dense the darkness.