Or, perhaps, finding himself once more in a double-decked craft, which rocked him as of yore, he was lulled into a deceitful security.
For Samoa, his drowsiness was the drowsiness of one beat on sleep, come dreams or death.

He seemed insensible to the peril we ran.

Often I sent the sleepy savage below, sad, steered myself till morning.

At last I made a point of slumbering much by day, the better to stand watch by night; though I made Samoa and Jarl regularly go through with their allotted four hours each.
It has been mentioned, that Annatoo took her turn at the helm; but it was only by day.

And in justice to the lady, I must affirm, that upon the whole she acquitted herself well.