As sweet a plant, as fair a flower, is faded / As ever in the Muses' garden bladed.

Within three days, having sailed into increasingly squally winds but still with extremely high temperatures, Arndell found himself kept busy with renewed bouts of seasickness.

But as the boat stuck in the bottom and refused to stir, he suddenly dropped his hold, and with an Avance done! gallantly slushed his way into the water alongside, in his Sunday trousers, lifted the gunwale and started her afloat, amidst a shower of final Au revoirs, and the rose chaloupe moved with noiseless smoothness down the current.

it [a whale] was killed with a harping iron , struck in the head