Night came on and the fierce wind died away completely as the sun went down.

We gave no more thought to the shot, but all went to bed without even leaving a watch, so confident was Prof.that there was no enemy, and no danger of a surprise.

He was always "level-headed" and never went off on a tangent doing wild or unwarranted things.

He was a man of unusually sound judgment.
In the absence of Cap.

the duty of reading barometer had fallen to me, and sometimes, when waiting for the hour to arrive, I had to sit alone for a time when the others already had turned in.