four in the morning
Now and then the boys in the stern complained of the cold , but there was nothing to be done in the wet , and moreover Elias 's thoughts were of very different things . He had such an intense desire for revenge , that , if he had not had the lives of his three remaining children to defend , he would have attempted by a sudden turn of his own boat to run into and sink the other , which still , as if in mockery , kept by his side , and whose evil object he understood only too well . If the halibut pike could wound the goblin before , then surely a knife or a landing-hook might now , and he felt that he would gladly give his life for a good blow at the monster who had so unmercifully taken his dearest from him , and still wanted more victims . Between three and four in the morning Elias saw , advancing through the dark , another foam-crest , so high that at first he thought they must be near breakers , close to land . But he soon saw that it really was an enormous wave . Then he fancied he distinctly heard laughter over in the other boat , and the words , `` Now your boat will capsize , Elias ! '' Elias , who foresaw the disaster , said aloud : `` In Jesus ' name ! ''