That is a trite enough statement, but when one is describing elemental things there is no room for subtlety.

The voyage was a fairly eventless one.

We saw very little of Kara, who did not intrude himself upon us, and our main excitement lay in the apprehension that we should be held up by a British destroyer or, that when we reached Gibraltar, we should be searched by the Brit's authorities.

Kara had foreseen that possibility and had taken in enough coal to last him for the run.
"We had a fairly stormy passage in the Mediterranean, but after that nothing happened until we arrived at Durazzo.

We had to go ashore in disguise, because Kara told us that the English Consul might see us and make some trouble.