About noon
`` We can not expect to get things here , as though we were a hundred yards from a grocer 's shop . Now let us go to where we covered up the other articles with sand . '' The sand was shovelled up , and the barrels of beef and pork and the deal boards found in good order , but many other things were quite spoilt . About noon they had finished , and as they had plenty of time , Mr Seagrave took the bearings of the different points of land with the compasses . They then shouldered their muskets , and set off on their return . They gained the house in the bay , and having rested a little while at the storehouse , they proceeded on their way to the tents in the meadow . They had about half a mile to go , when Ready heard a noise , and made a sign to Mr Seagrave to stop .