Note 22 — Chapter VI · SAILING TOWARDS THE ISLANDS OF GUAM AND BOUTON, THENCE TO BATAVIA, AND ROUND THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, HOME.

"The horrid apparition still draws nigh, And white with foam the whirling billows fly. The guns were primed; the vessel northward veers, Till her black battery on the column bears: The nitre fired: and, while the dreadful sound Convulsive shook the slumbering air around, The watery volume, trembling to the sky, Burst down a dreadful deluge from on high!"