noon
The bosun came up again and reported thirty miles from noon . Well , the log was about ten per cent . fast , so a note said in the night order book . It was five-thirty now , which gave them twenty-seven miles from noon or nearly five knots . That brought them due south of Fripeti . Mr. Spokesly looked at Plouff , who was looking at the fog with an expression of extreme disillusion on his round face . And again at the chart .