We ran in under the land and hauled down every sail, thus presenting so small a surface to the eye that it was almost impossible we should be seen during the night.

It was deemed advisable to keep a good look-out, and Captain Moncrieff volunteered to keep the watch from eight o'clock to eleven.

Mr.Campbell was to be on deck from eleven o'clock until three, when I was to be called to keep the look-out until daylight.
Everything passed off well during the first and second watches of the night.

At three o'clock I was roused out by the mate, and took my station on deck.

I could not divest myself of the idea that the Guarda Costa had divined our intentions and was quietly lying to, somewhere in our vicinity, sure of finding us snugly under her guns at the dawn of the day.