Excerpt from The Mystery of the "Ocean Star" A Collection of Maritime Sketches Shadow of thunder-cloud in the glistening void; and regularly as She drove into these spacious, seemingly motionless, bodies the blasts of her steam-horn fled ahead like yells startled out of her sentience by terror of the swift transformations of the Splendour 'of the tropical day into the moonlike blindness of the fog. For certam it was impossible to know but that in one or another of the banks a ship lay stagnated; and, though the engines were never Slowed, the ears upon the bridge were held strained until the steamer had leaped on a sudden out of the white twilight into the golden day again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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