"Captain Ringgold told me the first part of your rule—port from the color of port wine," added Louis.
"Now we have a case in point!" exclaimed Morris with sudden energy, as he pointed to another light in the distance. "That is a red light, and it is on the starboard side of us. This is the position of the greatest danger, for that steamer is running towards us. Here is more poetry:—
'If to your starboard red appear,
It is your duty to keep clear;
To act as judgment says its proper—
To port, or starboard, back, or stop her!'
That is just as yonder steamer appears in relation to the Maud—red on our starboard, her helmsman has green on his port, and this verse applies to him, as it would to us in his position:—
'But, when upon your port is seen
A steamer's starboard light of green,
There's not so much for you to do,