nine o'clock
They look like the kettles in which cooks get up a boiled dinner ; and for this reason the Arabs call the reef Abu Kizan , which means the ` father of pots . ' As you perceive , the ship is now out of sight of land ; for the Red Sea is a hundred and twenty miles wide at this point . But there is the gong for breakfast , and we must attend to that . '' The usual hour for the conference was nine o'clock when the ship was at sea . So far the weather was remarkably pleasant ; the north-west wind was very gentle , and the ship hardly pitched at all . At the regular hour the passengers had assembled on the promenade . The map of Arabia had been placed on the frame as before , and it was understood that Mohammed was to be the subject of the conference .