Quotation from: Elsinore

Written by: Jack London

"There it goes!" Mr. Pike cried, as the Elsinore dipped by the head
and hurtled the water for'ard.

The light went out as the three of us caught holds and crouched to a
deluge of water from overside. As we emerged, from under the
forecastle-head we heard a tremendous thumping and battering. Then,
as the bow lifted, for an instant in the pencil of light that
immediately lost it, I glimpsed a vague black object that bounded
down the inclined deck where no water was. What became of it we
could not see.