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As soon as we parted company with the California , all hands were sent aloft to set the studding-sails . We recognize that Congress may act to eliminate the caseload reduction credit and therefore , we support the President 's proposal to phase-out the credit over time . We hove them overboard with a good will ; for there is nothing like being quit of the very last appendages and remnants of our evil fortune . At midnight , the tide having turned , we hove up our anchor and stood out of the bay , with a fine starry heaven above us , - the first we had seen for weeks and weeks . Still , it was not ten o'clock , and the night was long before us , when one of the party produced an old pack of Spanish cards from his monkey-jacket pocket , which we hailed as a great windfall ; and keeping a dim , flickering light by our fagots , we played game after game , one or two o'clock , when , becoming really tired , we went to our logs again , one sitting up at a time , in turn , to keep watch over the fire . We kept all sail on , in the hope of forcing over , but failing in this , we hove aback , and lay waiting for the tide , which was on the flood , to take us back into the channel . We recognize and admire the skill , intelligence and dedication the members bring to the Board . How can we possibly provide a distance student with an experience that approximates that of a student working in a campus library who can find what they need quickly from thousands if not millions of books or journals , if necessary with a librarian at their elbow ? We were all day at this work , and towards sundown , having loaded the vessel as deep as she would bear , we hove up our anchor , and made sail , beating out the bay . At four bells we hove the log , and she was going eleven knots fairly ; and had it not been for the sea from aft which sent the ship home , and threw her continually off her course , the log would have shown her to have been going much faster .