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She had succumbed in the direful struggle with the sea-beast.
Sea-Tiger
By Henry S. Whitehead
Merman and Mermaid were they in the drowning Hewitt's revealing vision.
Arthur Hewitt's first intimation of the terrific storm which struck the Barbadian off Hatteras, en route for the West Indies, was a crash which awakened him out of uneasy sleep in the narrow berth of his cabin. When he staggered up to the saloon-deck the next morning after an extremely uncomfortable, sleepless night, he looked out of the ports upon a sea which transcended anything he had ever seen. The Barbadian, heeling and hanging, wallowed in the trough of cross
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