Captain Baker thought at first that he was in the presence of an unknown
sandbank; he even prepared to determine its exact position when two columns of water, projected by the mysterious object, shot with a hissing noise a hundred and fifty feet up into the air.
A shallow
sandbank had appeared in the sea and the water had receded from the beach.
I recognized every tree and
sandbank and rugged draw.
I have said that there were ten thousand of us that stood hip to hip and shoulder to shoulder on the
sandbank. When the sickness left us, there were three thousand yet alive.
Some have referred this to the reflection of the verdure; but it is equally green there against the railroad
sandbank, and in the spring, before the leaves are expanded, and it may be simply the result of the prevailing blue mixed with the yellow of the sand.
"We were on our way to Atjeh, where there was war; but the vessel ran on a
sandbank, and we had to land in Delli.
Then came a picture of a cheerful and corpulent ecclesiastic in a shovel hat, sitting opposite a very thin European, and the inscription: "Lunch with Fra Cristofero at Rosario." Studies of women and babies accounted for several more pages, and then there was an unbroken series of animal drawings with such explanations as "Manatee upon
Sandbank," "Turtles and Their Eggs," "Black Ajouti under a Miriti Palm"--the matter disclosing some sort of pig-like animal; and finally came a double page of studies of long-snouted and very unpleasant saurians.
The heave of the main ocean on the great
sandbank out in the bay, was a heave that made no sound.
I assume he followed the land and passed through what is at present known as Margate Roads, groping his careful way along the hidden
sandbanks, whose every tail and spit has its beacon or buoy nowadays.
They were to them so many
sandbanks upon that sea of ether which, less fortunate than sailors, they could not escape.
Generations and centuries passed, and, behold, in place of naked
sandbanks half awash were walled citadels, perforated with launching-ways for the long canoes, protected against the mainland by the lagoons that were to them their narrow seas.
By degrees as the river narrowed, and the high
sandbanks fell to level ground thickly grown with trees, the sounds of the forest could be heard.