One wind-whipped summer day in the year 1735, a black-hulled ship came storming in from seaward toward the mountain walls which guard the southern coast of Newfoundland. All the canvas she could carry was bent to her tall spars, and she was closing on the rock-ribbed coast at such a furious pace it seemed inevitable she must meet destruction in the surf that boiled and spouted at the foot of the sea-cliffs.
Farley Mowat, The Black Joke (McClelland & Stewart, 1962).
The Black Joke
Farley Mowat, The Black Joke (McClelland & Stewart, 1962).