About midnight
We had to pitch 'em overboard an ' beat 'em off wi ' the oars till they drowned : else they 'd ha ' sunk the boat . This seemed to hang on Pete 's mind , in a way . All the next night he talked light-headed ; said he could hear the dead men hailin ' their names . About midnight he jumped after 'em -- to fetch 'em , he said -- an ' was drowned . He took his compass with him , but that did n't make much odds . The boat was lighter now , an ' we hadn ' to bale . Pretty soon I got too weak to notice how the men went .