About midnight the weather moderated.

It improved steadily until a troubled dawn heralded some fitful gleams of the sun.
By that time the magnificent Peak of Fernando Noronha was plainly visible.

Coke came to the bridge and set a new course, almost due west.

The sun struggled with increasing success against the cloud battalions, and patches of blue appeared in sky and sea.

Soon it was possible to distinguish the full extent of the coast line.