The ship rolled so incessantly all night that I lay awake till morning.
The carpenter has made me a berth board which raises the outer edge
of my mattress so that as the ship rolls I am able to preserve an
equilibrium. But everything in my room which could get loose was piled
up in a promiscuous heap. For the first time for six weeks I did not
appear at breakfast, but lay till 11 A. M. hoping to sleep.