Moreover, she had on her voyage round the Horn salved a cargo of which she had not jettisoned a pound.

And why should not one rejoice also in the main chance coming so of itself?
I shook out a reef, and set the whole jib, for, having sea-room, I could square away two points.

This brought the sea more on her quarter, and she was the wholesomer under a press of sail.
Occasionally an old southwest sea, rolling up, combed athwart her, but did no harm.

The wind freshened as the sun rose half-mast or more, and the air, a bit chilly in the morning, softened later in the day; but I gave little thought to such things as these.
One wave, in the evening, larger than others that had threatened all day,--one such as sailors call "fine-weather seas,"-broke over the sloop fore and aft.

It washed over me at the helm, the last that swept over the _Spray_ off Cape Horn.