About ten o'clock
Again and again , each day , was he now in the practice of communing in spirit , directly with his Creator ; not in cold and unmeaning forms and commonplaces , but with such yearning of the soul , and such feelings of love and reverence , as an active and living faith can alone , by the aid of the Divine Spirit , awaken in the human breast . After crossing Shell Bay , the Bridget continued on for a couple of hours , running south , westerly , through a passage of a good width , until it met another channel , at a point which Mark at once recognized as the Forks . When at Point Fork , he had only to follow the track he had come the previous day , in order to arrive at the Reef . The crater could be seen from the Forks , and there was consequently a beacon in sight , to direct the adventurer , had he wanted such assistance ; which he did not , however , since he now recognized objects perfectly well as he advanced , About ten o'clock he ran alongside of the ship , where he found everything , as he had left it . Lighting the fire , he put on food sufficient to last him for another cruise , and then went up into the cross-trees in order to take a better look than he had yet obtained , of the state of things to the southward . By this time the vast , murky cloud that had so long overhung the new outlet of the volcano , was dispersed . It was succeeded by one of ordinary size , in which the thread of smoke that arose from the crater , terminated .