about two in the afternoon
`` No -- except when he is setting a halyard . Then I am always afraid the pulley will come down and the yard with it . '' Hunt certainly was a strange being , and I could not resist observing him with curiosity , especially as it struck me that he regarded me at times with a curious intentness . On the 10th of November , at about two in the afternoon , the look-out shouted , -- `` Land ahead , starboard ! '' An observation had just given 55 ° 7 ' latitude and 41 ° 13 ' longitude . This land could only be the Isle de Saint Pierre -- its British names are South Georgia , New Georgia , and King George 's Island -- and it belongs to the circumpolar regions . It was discovered by the Frenchman , Barbe , in 1675 , before Cook ; but , although he came in second , the celebrated navigator gave it the series of names which it still bears .