So long as I keep my lamp burning and read I am untroubled.

The instant I put out the lamp and drowse off the irritation starts and the lumps on my skin begin to form.
Miss West may be sea-sick, but she cannot be comatose, because at frequent intervals she sends the steward to me with more cream of tartar.
I have had a revelation to-day.

I have discovered Captain West.

He is a Samurai .-- You remember the Samurai that H.G.Wells describes in his _Modern Utopia_--the superior breed of men who know things and are masters of life and of their fellow-men in a super-benevolent, super-wise way?
Well, that is what Captain West is.

Let me tell it to you.
We had a shift of wind to-day.