Mardi Volume 1 Chapter 36 - The Parki gives up the Ghost

In which a sudden and fierce tempest overtakes a stranded brigantine, casting it about like some wild beast on a foaming plain and testing the mettle of those aboard with its savage, concentrated might. As the masts crash and the deck becomes a maelstrom of water and sound, the survivors labour swiftly to right their battered vessel, finding in the aftermath a sea calmed but still vast and rolling beneath the tranquil stars.