I rose at 5.30 to find Malta right ahead, and Valetta only a mile or two distant.
This means another day on the island, for which few are really sorry, as Valetta is not an unpleasant place in winter.
For a year he had been sailing out of Tahiti and through the Paumotus on the Valetta.
"That's what you read papa and everybody to sleep with," said Valetta pertly.