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Then I followed the spent waters in their return to the blue deep , wading in their spangled , decaying fragments until chased back up the bank by the coming of another wave . One day their ears , sharpened for all outside noises , distinguished a continued deep , heavy cannonade beyond the great black ramparts whose battlements were visible in the distance , and which inclosed them in a Dantesque circle ; Peking was being bombarded ! The dread mystery , which had so long hung over the great deep , had indeed been removed . The power of suggestion is more potent than drugs to combat unpleasant eventualities when one sallies forth on the briny deep , according to Dr. W.N .