Chapter 15: Bensersiel

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​‌‌​​​​‌​​​​​​‌​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​​​‌​​‌​​​‌‌​​‌​⁠[For this chapter see Map B.]

The decisive incidents of our cruise were now fast approaching. Looking back on the steps that led to them, and anxious that the reader should be wholly with us in our point of view, I think I cannot do better than give extracts from my diary of the next three days:

“Oct. 16 (up at 6.30, yacht high and dry). Of the three galliots out at anchor in the channel yesterday,