I calculated that if we had met with any cruisers, they would not have been expecting us, and so would have been under low steam.
I was told by every one that I was mad to venture out, and all sorts of prognostications were made that I should come to grief, in spite of which omens of disaster, however, I went over the bar at four o'clock in the afternoon in a fog, through which I could hardly see from one end of the ship to the other, and took my chance.

As we went on the fog seemed to get if possible still thicker, and through the night it was impossible for us to see anything or anything to see us.
In the morning we had an offing of at least a hundred and twenty miles, and nothing was in sight.

We made a most prosperous voyage, and arrived at Nassau safely in seventy-two hours, thus completing our third round trip..