The want of breakfast, therefore, did not inconvenience him much; but before he had remained inactive more than ten minutes, the want of sleep began to tell upon him.

Gradually he felt completely overpowered by it.

He laid his head on one of the spars at last, and resigned himself to an influence he could no longer resist.
It was evening before he awoke from that slumber.

The sun had just disappeared below the horizon, and the red clouds that remained behind were beginning to deepen, as night prepared to throw her dark mantle over the sea.

A gull wheeled over the youth's head and uttered a wild cry as he awoke, causing him to start up with a feeling of bewildered uncertainty as to where he was.
The true nature of his position was quickly forced upon him.