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on their faces and it prayed with mute lips. Three minutes later, the
cyclone had burst on them in all of its frenzy.
Such hurricane that Felix never had first experimented. Its energy was
terrible. You round off the palm-trees the played wind a frantic and capricious
the dance of devil. It pirouetted on the atoll in the angry joyfulness of
unawareness. Here and there it clarified passages, in hundreds of enclosures in
length, between the forest-trees and the plantations of cocoanut. The noise of
and falling trunks encircled thick on the air. To durations the cyclone
it would fall down from above of on the stem of oscillation of some tall and
grandiose palm that I bend as grass in front of the wind, street shortly breaks him/it
with a roar to the fund, and it immediately placed him/it low on the earth, with a
collapses as thunder. In the other places, the small happy whirlwinds seemed to
comes down from the sky in the very half one of the dense brushwood, where them
circular rolls and you clarify, thick strewn under foot with trunks and
you copper in their enormous sport, and it went away still unharmed all around the
surrounding forest. Then again a special cyclone of gigantic proportions
leftovers, as is, in an only column against a stem of a
you pile up, turns spirally round it as a shine of lightning, and, abandoning him/it
for another, you leave still it being standing, but it turned and it twisted as a grapevine
from the irresistible strength of his/her invisible fingers. The storm-god, says
Toko, was dancing with the palm-trees. The sight was terrible. This way
destructive energy that Felix had not imagined before also never. Nobody wonders the
it attaches with ferocity every circle seen in him the personal anger of some mighty spirit.
For despite the black clouds they was able _see_ it all--both the
European and the islanders. The intense obscurity of the night was
illuminated above for them every minute from an almost incessant blaze of sheet
and forked lightning. The roar of the thunder mixed with the roar of