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Land.
At last the electric light really went out.

I had looked at my watch just before this happened and wound it up, which, Bickley remarked, was superfluous and a waste of energy.

It then marked 3.20 in the morning.
We had wedged Bastin, who was now snoring comfortably, into his berth, with pillows, and managed to tie a cord over him--no, it was a large bath towel, fixing one end of it to the little rack over his bed and the other to its framework.

As for ourselves, we lay down on the floor between the table legs, which, of course, were screwed, and the settee, protecting ourselves as best we were able by help of the cushions, etc., between two of which we thrust the terrified Tommy who had been sliding up and down the cabin floor.