noon
The `` yellow-legged '' party remained at Nassau . I was a little sorry for this , too , as I liked the men pretty well , now that I knew them better . They certainly were good walkers . Toward noon the wind began to blow harder , and the waves ran very high . The `` Tigris '' rolled from side to side as if she would go over , and some of the ladies were a good deal frightened ; but she always came up again , all right , no matter how far over she dipped , and so in time they got used to it . I proved to Mrs. Chipperton that it would be impossible for the vessel to upset , as the great weight of ballast , freight , machinery , etc. , in the lower part of her would always bring her deck up again , even if she rolled entirely over on her side , which , sometimes , she seemed as if she was going to do , but she always changed her mind just as we thought the thing was going to happen . The first mate told me that the reason we rolled so was because we had been obliged to take in all sail , and that the mainsail had steadied the vessel very much before the wind got so high .