This gave me the wind three points on the starboard quarter and a steady pull in the headsails.

By the time I had things in this order it was dark, and a flying-fish had already fallen on deck.

I took him below for my supper, but found myself too tired to cook, or even to eat a thing already prepared.

I do not remember to have been more tired before or since in all my life than I was at the finish of that day.

Too fatigued to sleep, I rolled about with the motion of the vessel till near midnight, when I made shift to dress my fish and prepare a dish of tea.