seven o'clock
Thus the night passed . At dawn , the half-extinguished disc of the sun rose above a misty horizon ; but it was now possible to recognise objects two miles off . Phileas Fogg and the squad had gone southward ; in the south all was still vacancy . It was then seven o'clock . The captain , who was really alarmed , did not know what course to take . Should he send another detachment to the rescue of the first ? Should he sacrifice more men , with so few chances of saving those already sacrificed ?