About four o'clock
`` More like a lake than the ocean . '' `` That 's only true of this side , '' resumed the shepherd , `` the other is rough enough , but you see the prevailing winds are from the Northwest and this shore is never disturbed . So on the beaches you will find not sand , but smooth round pebbles , because there is no action of the water , no breakers or waves to grind them into sand . '' About four o'clock the Sea Eagle came into a perfectly beautiful little harbor , at the South-eastern end of the island . There was a small level plot back from the beach and on all sides rose steep hills and back of them the mountains . It was the most picturesque scene the boys had ever beheld in all their travels . What would they not have given to have been free to roam that island , hunting inland , or fishing or bathing along those quiet , enchanted shores .