ten o'clock
The horizon still remained vacant and the tip of Andros lay far to the north . Fortunately the haze was not thick enough to wholly obscure the sun and so O'Reilly was enabled to hold his course . But he did not like the look of things . By ten o'clock the sea was tumbling and the worm-eaten hulk was laboring . It became necessary to shorten sail . Soon the bottom of the boat was awash and Esteban lay in a pool of brine . Even when the girls helped to dip it out they could not lower its level .