Just then the fish gave a sudden lurch that pulled the old man down onto the bow and would have pulled him overboard if he had not braced himself and given some line.
" Luff, you lubber, " cried an Irish voice that was Smee's; " here's the rock. Now, then, what we have to do is to hoist the redskin on to it and leave her here to drown" .
On the prow of that stone ship in the centre of the strait, and seemingly a part of it, a shaped and geometrical outcrop of the naked rock, stood the pueblo of Malpais.
Far from her intention, her words were maddening me, driving me on. I could not play the coward before her eyes. " Here goes, " I said, backing water with one oar and running the bow ashore.
This ended up causing the ship to lose all ability to steer, pushed the ship sideways, and caused it to ram bow first into the east side of the Suez Canal.
Upon her head boards, in large gilt letters, he read " Bouton de Rose, " —Rose-button, or Rose-bud; and this was the romantic name of this aromatic ship.
船头顶板上有几个镀金的法文大字:“Bouton de Rose”—“玫瑰苞”或“玫瑰蓓蕾”;艘芳香扑鼻的船便取了个么富有浪漫气息的芳名。