Q25-28: Read the following passage and answer the questions given below:
Our voyage was very prosperous, but I shall not trouble the reader with a journal of it. The captain called in at one or two ports and sent in his long boat for provisions and freshwater, but I never went out of the ship still we came into the Downs, which was on the 3rd day of June, 1706, about nine months after my escape. I offered to leave my goods in security for payment of my freight, but the captain protested he would not receive one fanning. We took kind leave of each other, and I made him promise that he would come to see me at my house in Redriff. I hired house and a guide for five shillings which I borrowed from the captain.

25. When the writer uses the word 'prosperous' to describe means that