about eleven o’clock
At the risk of being devoured by the sharks , the boatswain and two sailors took a morning bath , and as their plunge seemed to refresh them , I and three of my companions resolved to follow their example . We had never learnt to swim , and had to be fastened to the end of a rope and lowered into the water ; while Curtis during the half-hour of our bath , kept a sharp look-out to give warning of any danger from approaching sharks . No recommendation , however , on our part , nor any representation of the benefit we felt we had derived , could induce Miss Herbey to allay her sufferings in the same way . At about eleven o'clock , the captain came up to me , and whispered in my ear , -- `` Do n't say a word , Mr. Kazallon ; I do not want to raise false hopes , but I think I see a ship . '' It was as well that the captain had warned me ; otherwise , I should have raised an involuntary shout of joy ; as it was , I had the greatest difficulty in restraining my expressions of delight . `` Look behind to larboard , '' he continued in an undertone . Affecting an indifference which I was far from feeling , I cast an anxious glance to that quarter of the horizon of which he spoke , and there , although mine is not a nautical eye , I could plainly distinguish the outline of a ship under sail .