ten o'clock
The captain told them that they had erred greatly in going away in such a reckless manner , without taking proper precautions to secure their return before gun-fire . But he said they had already been punished so severely for their thoughtlessness that he should overlook the offence , and that he complimented them on the courage and coolness they had displayed in extricating themselves from the dangerous position into which they had fallen . He then invited them to breakfast , at which meal the first lieutenant was also present , and here they gave much fuller details of their escape than Hawtry had done in his first narration of it . At ten o'clock , when the boys were below , they heard a loud cheering , and found that the `` Orinoco , '' with the Grenadiers , had just come into harbor , and were being cheered by their comrades on board the `` Ripon '' and by the blue jackets of the men-of-war . All through the day the harbor was alive with boats . Before nightfall the Coldstreams were all ashore , and by Monday evening the last of the Grenadiers had also disembarked . Every day brought fresh troops to Malta , until the brigade of Guards and eleven regiments of infantry of the line were gathered there .