two o'clock
It struck him also , that she was not in her exact course . She seemed to him to bear to westward too much . The apparition of this vessel under full steam in the fog surprised him . Towards two o'clock the weather had become so thick that the captain was obliged to leave the bridge , and plant himself near the steersman . The sun had vanished , and all was fog . A sort of ashy darkness surrounded the ship . They were navigating in a pale shroud .