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But I hope we shall soon be able to relieve you , '' I added . `` I do n't have very hard work , and I can stand it very well till morning . '' I returned to the wheel-house . It was about two bells , or one in the morning . The tempest had not increased in the last hour , and I hoped we had seen the worst of it . We were working the engine just enough to keep the steamer 's head up to the sea . The Sylvania behaved so well in her present position that I dismissed the port watch at two in the morning ; but I could not think of turning in myself while there was any possibility of trouble ahead .