it blows like this. Make room there, Bumpus, can't you?"

Then there were two of them; and talk about your rivalry, it did seem as
though both of those fellows would tear themselves to pieces, as the
boat continued to swing up and down with that perpetual sickening,
nauseating movement.

Presently Step Hen found a place too, and tried to outdo his comrades;
seeing which Giraffe apparently thought he might as well make it
unanimous then there were four, leaving only the skipper and his first
assistant on deck to manage the boat.

"Anyhow, the cargo will be lighter after all this," Giraffe spoke up,
after a while, showing that even seasickness could not quite extinguish
his love of joking.

By now they had covered considerable distance, so that the little
headland loomed not a great away beyond.

Thad, too, had changed their course somewhat, so that they were now much
closer shore than before; and unless some accident happened he believed
that before another twenty minutes passed they would be able to get the
shelter of that projecting tongue of land, after which their present
troubles would fade away.

It was time, too, for already the first dim signs of coming darkness
could be seen around them; no doubt the fact that clouds covered the
face of the sky had more or less to do with this early closing in of the
night, as is always the case.