about five o’clock
`` Maybe so ! '' said Joe . `` Every man for himself . '' In the afternoon , the sky became covered with a warm mist , that oozed from the soil ; the brownish vapor scarcely allowed the beholder to distinguish objects , and so , fearing collision with some unexpected mountain-peak , the doctor , about five o'clock , gave the signal to halt . The night passed without accident , but in such profound obscurity , that it was necessary to use redoubled vigilance . The monsoon blew with extreme violence during all the next morning . The wind buried itself in the lower cavities of the balloon and shook the appendage by which the dilating-pipes entered the main apparatus .