Date: 1857
About 2 o'clock, a.m., we took the ground, or rather our legs (for sea vessels have harbour legs, be it known to the uninitiated) and shortly  272 THE STORY afterwards the machine, to our great relief, grounded also, and stopped work for want of water.  We now began to settle ourselves for a snooze, exhausted in body, and worn out in mind ; but as though the nervous system had not had shaking enough, before balmy sleep had visited (I think I may say, answering for my crew) any of our eyelids half an hour, crash !