“Tell me”, continued the old man, “can you hear anything?? Can you see a change in the water?”
When the old man spoke, I began to hear a loud sound. At the same time I saw that the ocean was changing. It was becoming rough, and was beginning to move even more quickly. With each second it moved faster. In five minutes the sea between Vurggh and the mountain was turning in terrible whirlpools. Between Moskoe and the coast, it turned more wildly.
“Have you ever seen anything like it?” asked the old man.
I could say nothing as I watched. In a few minutes the small whirlpools suddenly became one. It was more than a kilometer wide. The great whirlpool’s walls were smooth and black. They turned with great speed. The whirlpool made a screaming sound, like no other sound on earth. The mountain shook under our feet. I threw myself to the ground again in fear.
