We shall all be glad of a good meal.
"Well, thank God, everything has ended far better than we could have hoped for!" Two hours later the crew, having got into dry clothes, were sitting down, enjoying a plentiful allowance of pea soup and salt junk; while the officers were partaking of similar fare, in the cabin.
None who saw them there would have dreamt of the long struggle they had been through, and that the ship was well nigh a wreck.

It was now late in the afternoon, and Fairclough gave orders that all might turn in, as soon as they liked; except that an anchor watch, of four men, must maintain a sharp lookout, for the natives of the island were bitterly hostile to the whites.
"I don't think there is any real danger," he said to Harry, "or that they will attempt to take the ship.

Their habit is, I have heard, to lie in hiding, and to shoot their arrows at any stranger who may land." They sat chatting, for an hour, after the meal was concluded.

Then the conversation flagged, and Fairclough said, presently: "I think that we may as well follow the men's example, and turn in.
I can hardly keep my eyes open." The gale was still blowing strongly, in the morning, though its force had somewhat abated.

But inside the bar there was but a slight swell, and the brig rode easily at her anchors; for the wind was now several points west of north, and they were consequently protected by the land.
The work of repairing damages began at once for, owing to the length of the voyage, the stores of provisions and water were beginning to run very short.