4 a.m.
I have discovered that Von Weissman is a martyr to sea-sickness -- all day he has been lying down as white as a sheet and subsisting on milk tablets and sips of brandy ; yet such is the man 's inflexibility of will that he forces himself to make a tour of inspection right round the boat every six hours , night and day . It is this will to conquer which has made Germans unconquerable , though `` Come the four corners of the world in arms '' against us , as the great poet says . We are , of course , keeping watch from inside the conning tower ; it is , at all events , dry , but as to seeing anything one might as well be looking out through a small glass window from inside a breakwater ! To bed till 4 a.m. * * * * * A most unprofitable day . I grudge every day away from Zoe on which we do nothing . This morning about noon the gale blew itself out , but a heavy confused sea continued to run . At 2 p.m. we saw a most tantalizing spectacle .