eight o'clock
Ca n't see her move any . '' Dodd ordered the boatswain to pipe to breakfast ; and taking his deck glass went lightly up to the fore-top-gallant-mast crosstrees . Thence , through the light haze of a glorious morning , he espied a long low schooner , lateen-rigged , lying close under Point Leat , a small island about nine miles distant on the weather bow , and nearly in the _ Agra 's _ course , then approaching the Straits of Gaspar , 4 latitude S. `` She is hove-to , '' said Dodd very gravely . At eight o'clock , the stranger lay about two miles to windward , and still hove-to . By this time all eyes were turned upon her , and half a dozen glasses . Everybody , except the captain , delivered an opinion . She was a Greek lying-to for water : she was a Malay coming north with canes , and short of hands : she was a pirate watching the Straits .