about 10 p.m
We received these supernumeraries on board early next morning , and sailed immediately after the completion of the embarkation . It took us a week to make the passage , the wind being fair but light , and the weather beautiful during the whole time . On the fourth day out , poor old Rawlings , the master , complained of severe shooting pains in the head , accompanied by giddiness and nausea , and the next day found him confined to his berth in a high fever . We arrived off the port at about 10 p.m. . It was a beautiful night , the moon , just entering her second quarter , beamed softly down upon us from the cloudless , star-spangled sky , and a light air of wind from the southward just filled our sails and fanned us along at a rate of about four knots . When about five miles off , we hoisted lights for a pilot , the skipper being anxious to get in that night , so as to discharge the supernumeraries the first thing in the morning , the vessel being somewhat crowded . Three-quarters of an hour elapsed , during which we looked in vain for a boat coming off to us , when , having approached within a couple of miles of the entrance to the harbour , Captain Hood gave orders for the ship to be hove-to .