Having to attend to him made me think perhaps less of our situation; but I know that I was not at all happy.  All sorts of dreadful thoughts came into my mind.  Every instant I expected to hear a tremendous sea come rushing over our deck, and perhaps to find that papa or some of the men had been washed away.  I was most anxious about papa.  If he was lost, I believed that the vessel would be lost too; but then I remembered what a good sailor he was; and as he had been to sea all his life, he was sure to manage the vessel properly; and, as he had often said, she was such a tight little sea-boat she would go through anything.  Still, we were in a part of the ocean where the tide runs with great force, and when meeting the wind a very awkward sea is beaten up.  This made the cutter tumble about in a way I had never known her do before.  Everything in the cabin had been securely lashed except a few books and charts.  First one came flying out as the vessel rolled over, and hit poor Dick on the head.