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decide to start. It is true that, according to the vane, the wind will be right in our teeth; but ours is a weatherly boat, the breeze is fresh and steady, and if we work our tides scientifically we ought to be able to make the passage in twelve hours.
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Fig. 69.
It is early morning, the last of the ebb running
