You had best turn in at once.

Unless I am mistaken, it will be all hands to the pumps, before long.

If she hadn't been one of the tightest crafts afloat, she would have been making water at every seam, by this time." Reuben felt, the instant he lay down, that sleep was out of the question; for it needed all his strength to prevent himself from being thrown out of his bunk.

The noise, too, was terrific--the rush and swell of the water overhead, the blows which made the ship shiver from stem to stern, the creaking of the masts, and howling of the wind.

Night had set in, now.