eleven o’clock
His voice had become inarticulate , the coldness had increased , all motion in the extremities had ceased , the legs and arms became quite stiff , the respiration slow and difficult , as if the blood had coagulated , and could no longer circulate through the heart ; or as if , from some unaccountable effect of the poison on the nerves , the action of the former had been impeded ; -- still the poor little fellow was perfectly sensible , and his eye bright and restless . His breathing became still more interrupted -- he could no longer be said to breathe , but gasped -- and in another half hour , like a steam-engine when the fire is withdrawn , the strokes , or contractions and expansions of his heart became slower and slower , until they ceased altogether . From the very moment of his death , the body began rapidly to swell , and become discoloured ; the face and neck , especially , were nearly as black as ink within half an hour of it , when blood began to flow from the mouth , and other symptoms of rapid decomposition succeeded each other so fast , that by nine in the morning we had to sew him up in a boat sail , with a large stone , and launch the body into the sea . We continued to struggle against the breeze until eleven o'clock in the forenoon of the 27th , when the wind again increased to such a pitch , that we had to cast off our tow , and leave her on the coast under the charge of little Reefpoint , with instructions to remain in the creek where he was , until the schooner picked him up ; we then pushed once more through the surf for Porto Bello , where we arrived in safety at five P.m. Next morning at daylight we got under weigh , and stood down for the canoe , and having received the money on board , and the Spaniards who accompanied it , and poor mulo , we made sail for Kingston , Jamaica , and on the 4th of the following month were off Carthagena once more , having been delayed by calms and light winds . The captain of the port shoved out to us , and I immediately recognized him as the officer to whom poor old Deadeye once gave a deuced fright , when we were off the town , in the old Torch , during the siege , and about a fortnight before she foundered in the hurricane ; but in the present instance he was all civility ; on his departure we made sail , and arrived at Kingston , safe and sound , in the unusually short passage of sixty hours from the time we left Carthagena . Here the first thing I did was to call on some of my old friends , with one of whom I found a letter lying for me from Mr Bang , requesting a visit at his domicile in St Thomas in the Vale so soon as I arrived ; and through the extreme kindness of my Kingston allies , I had , on my intention of accepting it being known , at least half a dozen gigs offered to me , with servants and horses , and I do n't know what all . I made my selection , and had arranged to start at day-dawn next morning , when a cousin of mine , young Palma , came in where I was dining , and said that his mother and the family had arrived in town that very day , and were bound on a picnic party next morning to visit the Falls in St David 's .