"Now, you take the steering oar, Dick, and see that you keep her as straight as you can before the wind; while I set to and bale.

She is nearly half full of water." It took half an hour's work, with the little bowl they found in the boat, before she was completely cleared of water.

The relief given to her was very apparent, for she rose much more lightly on the waves.
"We will sit down at the bottom of the boat, and take it by turns to hold the steering oar." They had brought with them a lantern in which a lighted candle was kept burning, in order to be able to light their pipes.

This was stowed away in a locker in the stern, with their store of biscuit and, after eating some of these, dividing a bottle of wine, and lighting their pipes, they felt comparatively comfortable.

They were, of course, drenched to the skin and, as the wind was cold, they pulled the sail partly over them.
"She does not ship any water now, Terence.