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Somewhere about four in the afternoon Start Point showed away on the starboard beam; and with the dark the Eddystone light, sixteen miles or so away, winked at them just within the range of visibility.
The wind had shifted a bit towards the south, and the nip had gone out of the air, but no clouds showed. St. Luke's little summer held the Channel, and the warm dark night was full of lights -- lights talking to one another through the great silence that was broken only by the creak of block and spar and the whisper of the bow wash. Bolt Head and the Eddystone and the red and green lights of shipping were all domed by the stars, against which the great spread of the mainsail showed black beneath the truck, writing its tale of adventure on the heavens. They passed Ushant next morning, carrying the fine weather with them into the Bay; they passed the Bay and the Barlengas Islands handed them on to Cape St. Vincent, and then, one day never to be forgotten by Martia, far ahead before them stood Africa facing Europe in a blaze of sunshine across the narrow straits.