noon
Mr. Badcock had crawled to the bulwarks , and leaned there in uncontrollable sea-sickness . Until the gale was done I believe he had not felt a qualm . Now , on the top of his nausea , he had to endure the raillery of Mr. Fett , whose active fancy had already invented a grotesque and wholly untruthful accusation against his friend -- namely , that when assailed by the Moors , and in the act of being kicked below , he had dropped on his knees and offered to turn Mohammedan . That evening we committed old Worthyvale 's body to the sea , and my father , having taken his first observation at noon , carefully entered the latitude and longitude in his pocket-book . On consulting the chart we found the alleged bearings somewhere south of Asia-Minor -- to be exact , off the coast of Pamphylia . My father therefore added the word `` approximately '' to his entry , and waited for Captain Pomery to recover . Though the sea went down even more quickly than it had arisen , the pumps kept us fairly busy .