We will divide into watches now.

It will be twelve hours before we get our allowance of bread again, therefore that will give three hours' work, and nine hours' sleep to each.

They will be just setting the first watch on deck, and, as we shall hear them changed, it will give us a good idea how the time is passing." "I am ready to work all night, myself," Matteo said.

"At first I had not much faith in what we were doing; but now that we have got three of these irons out, I am ready to go on working until I drop." "You will find, Matteo, that your arms will ache, so that you cannot hold them up, before the end of the three hours.

Sawing like that, with your arms above your head, is most fatiguing; and even the short spells of work we have been having made my arms ache.