about ten
o'clock in the morning
I therefore slept in Kingston that night ; and having arranged , the first thing next morning , for the supply of the stores and water , I went aboard to give orders to send down topmasts and have the rigging lifted . But an interview with Hoard , the man that we had taken off the wreck of the Spanish frigate , suddenly altered all my plans . The way that it came about was this . I reached the schooner about ten o'clock in the morning , and at once gave my orders to Mr Saunders , who forthwith set all hands to work . I then went below to my cabin to write some letters home , to be forwarded by the frigate that was to take the Spanish despatches ; and whilst I was thus engaged a timid , hesitating knock came to the door . `` Come in ! '' shouted I ; and forthwith entered the man Hoard , carefully closing the door behind him .