"How are you getting on, boys?" asked Gray at the window from which Felix had just retired.
"First rate," replied Scott. "We are going to sleep now, and we want you to wake us when you have done with the steamer. Don't set her adrift while we are snoozing in the cabin, for she might get aground again off Carnero Point."
"Never fear; I will see that you are waked in season to look out for the steamer," replied Gray, as he resumed his walk to the standing-room.
"On board the steamer!" shouted Captain Velazquez, a moment later, when he saw the Scotchman at the stern.
"Ay, ay, Diego!" replied Gray.
"We are half way over to Gib now. Don't go too near the town, but head her south south-west," called the captain in Spanish, for he could not speak English.
"Muy bien!" (Very well!) returned Gray, as he went forward to give Francisco the new course.
"What time is it, Captain Belgrave?" asked Scott.
"Ten minutes past nine," replied Louis, after looking at his watch.
"I thought it must be ten or eleven," added Scott. "We have been out only three hours; and it seems as though we had been a week on this cruise."