But, I repeat it, Mrs.Weldon, the appearance of the sky is reassuring, and it is impossible for a vessel or a pilot-boat not to meet us.

Then, good hope.

We are headed for the land, we shall see it before long." Yes, to run a ship aground is a last extremity, to which the most energetic sailor does not resort without fear! Thus, Dick Sand did not wish to foresee it, while he had some chances of escaping it.
For several days there were, in the state of the atmosphere, alternatives which, anew, made the novice very uneasy.

The wind kept in the condition of a stiff breeze all the time, and certain oscillations of the barometrical column indicated that it tended to freshen.

Dick Sand then asked himself, not without apprehension, if he would be again forced to scud without sails.