ated that it
lay dead to leeward of us when the wind went to the north-west."

It was a considerable time before Godfrey went off to sleep owing to the
rapid changes of the angle at which he was lying. Sometimes his head was
two or three feet higher than his feet, and directly afterwards the
position was exactly reversed. The rolling was but slight, and this he
scarcely felt, being too tightly packed in along with the furs and the
dog to move much. But at last the noise of the water and the roar of the
wind lulled him to sleep. He woke once, and then went off again, and his
watch told him that he had been altogether asleep twelve hours. When he
next woke, he felt at once that the motion was slighter than it had been
and that the wind had greatly abated.

"Are you asleep, Luka?" he shouted.

"I am not asleep now," Luka replied drowsily.

"The storm is pretty nearly over; I will get the cover off and look
round, and then we will see if we can't boil some water and have some
tea. We have never used any of those candles yet; this will be a good
opportunity to try them."

Unlashing and removing the cover, Godfrey sat up and looked round. The
gale had broken. Black clouds were hurrying past overhead, but there
were patches of blue sky. The sea was still very heavy, but it was
rarely that the canoe dipped her nose under a wave, so lightly did she
rise and fall over them.

"In a few hours we shall have our sail up again, Luka," he said as the
Tartar thrust his head up through his opening. It was but for a moment.
He instantly dived under again and replaced the cover, appalled at the
sea, which was infinitely rougher than anything he had ever before
witnessed.

"It looks pretty bad, doesn't it?" Godfrey said, laughing, as he, too,
resumed his position of shelter.

"It is terrible," Luka said.

"I expect it has been worse. At any rate, as you can see we have got
through it without taking a drop of water on board, thanks to the
floating anchor. Now I will pass the kettle forward to you. Be very
careful with it, for it is all the water we have."

"All the water! Why, what has become of the boat?" Luka exclaimed.

"I had to cut her adrift half an hour after the squall struck us. Did
not you hear me look out when I took your paddle?"

"I felt you take the paddle, but there was too much noise to hear
anything, and I was too frightened to listen. I thought that surely we
should go to the bottom. Why did you cut her loose