We will have a better meal than we did this morning, for now that the wind is going down there's no chance of food running short.

When we have had dinner we will get up the sail again.

The sea is not so rough as it was, and it is certainly not so high as it was before we lowered the sail yesterday." "De waves bery big, massa." "They are big, Dan; but they are not so angry.

The heads are not breaking over as they did last night, and the boat will go better over these long waves than she did through the choppy sea at the beginning of the gale." Accordingly the bundle of spars was pulled up alongside and lifted.

The mast was set up and the sail hoisted.