The three became but a dark blurr amid the smoke, with the top spars thrusting out in a bristle, and from the heart of that cloud came the quick red flashes of flame, and such a devils' racket of big guns and small, cheering and screaming, as was to din in my head for many a week.
D'en haut et du centre de ce nuage partaient, comme l'éclair, de rouges langues de flammes. C'était un tapage si infernal de gros et de petits canons, de cris de joie, de hurlements, que pendant bien des semaines mes oreilles en tintèrent encore.