Taking the matter very easily, husbanding all my strength for the exceedingly difficult task of getting the felucca under way single-handed--in the event of all things conspiring to render such a decided step justifiable--and sculling so gently that I scarcely raised a ripple on the highly phosphorescent water, I at length glided quietly up alongside the felucca and, taking the end of the boat's painter with me, climbed in over the vessel's low bulwarks, passed the dinghy astern, made her fast, and forthwith proceeded to overhaul the craft which I had thus surreptitiously visited.