“I opened my eyes. I will never forget what I saw. It was wonderful and terrible at the same time. The boat seemed to hang on the inside of the whirlpool. The sides of the whirlpool were perfectly smooth, black, and shining with moonlight.
“The moonlight reached the bottom of the whirlpool and I saw a rainbow there. It was like a bridge between this world and the next world. But the noise of the whirlpool was a terrible scream.
“The boat went round and round. It was going down and down, toward the bottom where the waters crashed together. But our movement was very slow, so I had time. I looked around me.
“Our boat was not the only thing that was caught in the whirlpool. Above and below us I saw pieces of other boats, broken boxes, trees and barrels. I tried to guess: 2Which things will fall faster than heavier ones.
