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CHAPTER LXXIV. — A Death-Cloud Sweeps By Them, As They Sail
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Next day, a fearful sight!
As in Sooloo's seas, one vast water-spout will, sudden, form: and whirling, chase the flying Malay keels; so, before a swift-winged cloud, a thousand prows1 sped by, leaving braided, foaming2 wakes; their crowded inmates4' arms, in frenzied5 supplications wreathed; like tangled6 forest-boughs.
"See, see," cried Yoomy, "how the Death-cloud flies! Let us dive down in the sea."
"Nay," said Babbalanja. "All things come of Oro; if we must drown, let Oro drown us."
"Down sails: drop paddles," said Media: "here we float."
Like a rushing bison, sweeping7 by, the Death-cloud grazed us with its foam3; and whirling in upon the thousand prows beyond, sudden burst in deluges8; and scooping9 out a maelstrom10, dragged down every plank11 and soul.
Long we rocked upon the circling billows, which expanding from that center, dashed every isle12, till, moons after-ward, faint, they laved all Mardi's reef.
"Thanks unto Oro," murmured Mohi, "this heart still beats."
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