noon
At daybreak the storm was still raging , but suddenly the wind backed to the south-east . This was a change for the better , and the _ Tankadere _ again proceeded on her course , though the cross-sea gave her some tremendous blows , sufficient to have crushed a less solid craft . The coast was occasionally visible through the mist , but not a sail was in sight . At noon the weather cleared a little , the gale had blown itself out , and the travellers were enabled to take some rest . The night was comparatively quiet , and the pilot was induced to set a little more sail , and at day-break next morning John Bunsby was able to declare that they were less than a hundred miles from Shanghai . A hundred miles , and only one day to accomplish the distance . On that evening they ought to be at Shanghai if they wished to catch the steamer for Yokohama ; but for the storm , which had delayed them several hours , they would then have been within thirty miles of their destination .