five o'clock in the evening
The effect of this catastrophe may be imagined , but hardly described . The seamen who had debated as to casting them adrift to perish , wept as they pulled towards the shore . Philip was overcome , he covered his face , and remained , for some time , without giving directions , and heedless of what passed . It was now five o'clock in the evening ; the boats had cast off the tow-lines , and vied with each other in their exertions . Before the sun had set they all had arrived at the beach , and were safely landed in the little sand bay into which they had steered ; for the wind was off the shore , and there was no surf . The boats were hauled up , and the exhausted men lay down on the sands , till warm with the heat of the sun , and forgetting that they had neither eaten nor drank for so long a time , they were soon fast asleep . Captain Barentz , Philip , and Krantz , as soon as they had seen the boats secured , held a short consultation , and were then glad to follow the example of the seamen ; harassed and worn out with the fatigue of the last twenty-four hours , their senses were soon drowned in oblivion .