Still, we may have time to look out for a soft spot." "We should not have much chance, in that case, Hardy; my only hope is in another shift of wind." "But it will go round more to the north, sir, and then we sha'n't be able to lie our course, at all.

It has gone round a point, since we got up the top sail." "Quite so; and I doubt whether it will go round soon enough to save us.

If it should go round a little more to the north, we must try and get her on the other tack; but I am afraid, in such a sea, she will not go about.

Of course, our great aim is to reach Port Cornwallis; or, if we cannot get as far as that, I have just been having a look at the chart, and I see there are three narrow straits.

How much water there is in them, I do not know.