Jack, however, did not bring us the fine weather we wished for. Daylight returned, and we were little better off than before.  We nibbled some biscuit, as Jerry said, to keep our spirits up, and then had a look at the glass.  It had risen two degrees.  Still the sea ran very high.  Jerry and I went at last on deck, followed by Surley.  The captain and officers were there, for they had resolved to try and bring the ship to; as she was running a long way out of her course.  This, after a time, was done, when the wind lulled, under a close-reefed fore-topsail.  We rode after this much more pleasantly, and then the sea began to go down, and once more we could move about the deck without danger of being washed overboard.