He had written two letters in the middle watch, one to the Company and the other to me.
The middle watch was mustered duly at midnight, and the former one retired.
One night we had the middle watch, and were together on the look-out forward.
At last, one night, when it was my middle watch on deck, Jim came aft to me.
There had been a stark calm since the commencement of the middle watch.
It came at length, towards the end of the middle watch, and as before, astern.
Rayner had just come on deck to relieve Oliver, who had the middle watch.
All hands were roused up in the middle watch to reef topsails.
It is only to request that I may not keep the middle watch to-night.
It is the middle watch of the night—the first after leaving San Francisco.
