...animate nature in its most desperate crises. Miss Grimshaw may well inquire: "Did Schiller or Edgar Allan Poe ever conjure up a picture more ghastly than that...cracking eyeballs, while the threatening bulk of his deadly enemy looms dark and steady, full in the road to life and air? -A minute or more has been spent...

...by the visible retreat of the object of his desire. Not Schiller nor Edgar Allan Poe ever conjured up a picture more ghastly than that of a Penrhyn diver...trap by some huge, maneating shark or fierce kara mauua, crouching in a cleft of the overhanging coral, under the dark green gloom of a hundred feet...