The person who told me was one of them, and said it was sickening work looking for Batoum.

It is true the nights were fearfully dark, so that the shape of the land could not be made out.

He said that without the traitor's light they could not have found us.

I am not saying by this that one should always trust to darkness; there are many other ways _now_ of taking the sting out of torpedo attacks.

It is needless to say that the steamers I sent out returned, having seen nothing.