about nine o'clock
Naturally enough I was anxious . I had on board trade goods which had cost £ 1,100 , and of course had not one penny of insurance on them . The brigantine , however , was well insured , though I do not impute this fact as being the cause of the captain 's neglect of a sensible warning . After supper , the captain turned in , while the mate and I , both feeling very uneasy , paced the deck till about nine o'clock , at which hour the wind had become perceptibly lighter , and the captain was called . He came on deck , trotted up and down in his pyjamas for a few minutes , sat on the rail , like a monkey on a fence , and then asked the mate snappishly what he was `` scared about ? '' The mate made no reply , and the captain was just going below again , when two fishing canoes , with four natives in each , came quite near us , both heading for the shore ; and the skipper asked me to hail them and see if they had any fish to sell . I did so .