About five o'clock
Then , the anxious party on shore discovered that Charles was in command of the Zephyr . With the help of the spy-glass , they were able to form a very correct idea of the state of feeling on board the boats . There was a great deal of quarreling in both ; and , after they had been out half an hour , a regular fight occurred in the Zephyr . About five o'clock they returned to the island , and before dark it began to rain . All the evening a great fire blazed on the island ; but the frail tents of the Rovers must have been entirely inadequate to protect them from the severity of the weather . At nine o'clock the Zephyrs , who had spent the evening in the hall , went home , leaving Uncle Ben , who had been deputed by Captain Sedley to watch the Rovers , still gazing through his night-glass at the camp-fires on the island . Soon after , discordant cries were wafted over the waters , and it was plain to the veteran that there was `` trouble in the camp . ''