about ten o’clock
`` There is no danger of either of those two things happening , '' said the mate . `` Tony is too afraid of the machinery to do anything to it . So you may safely figure that our speed will continue the same . '' `` Then I can guarantee , with all reasonable certainty , '' the professor said , `` that about ten o'clock to-morrow we will be less than a mile from the islands . They are a group where friendly natives live , and where many tropical fruits abound . One could scarcely select a better place to be shipwrecked . But I hope the plans of Tony and his friends do not include landing us there . ''