"I had no idea that sailing was as jolly as it is." They sped along all day and, before noon, had passed Bilbao.

As the afternoon wore on the wind increased in force, and the clouds began to pass rapidly overhead, from the southeast.
"We had better get her in to the shore," Terence said.

"Even with this scrap of sail, we keep on taking the water in on that lower side.

I expect Santander lies beyond that point that runs out ahead of us, and we will land somewhere this side of it." But as soon as they turned the boat's head towards the shore, and hauled in the sheet as tightly as they could, they found that, try as they would, they could not get her to lie her course.
"We sha'n't make the point at all," Terence said, half an hour after they had changed the course.

"Besides, we have been nearly over, two or three times.