noon
By Jove , Blagrove , '' he said , as Edgar came aft and glanced at the compass , `` that was a narrow squeak ! If you had n't noticed those native craft lower their sails and called our attention to it , we should have turned turtle as sure as fate . We have got her snug now . If we were right as to our position at noon we shall clear those rocks nicely . '' `` I do n't think we can have been far wrong , by the position of the islands . At the same time I will go up to the foretop , '' Edgar said ; `` I shall be able to make them out some distance away , for , if you remember , two of them are thirty or forty feet above the water . '' `` Mind how you go , '' Wilkinson said .