Peak"s Island: A Romance of Buccaneer Days (Dodo Press)

"SEPTEMBER 27, 1607. Dead bodies everywhere. The ocean, lashed to fury by the gale of yesterday, came booming and hissing upon the beach in great breakers white with foam; each billow as it dashed upon the jagged and broken rocks bore in its terrible embrace still more human victims, or some portion of the two unlucky ships that were fast breaking up."