seven o'clock
But there was not much fun in paddling through the muddy river in the dark , let alone the prudence of doing so . My father and Owen came into the pilot-house after supper , and both of them approved what I had done . The Sylvania lay alongside the bank of the stream , held by the hawser , with her stern a little way out from the shore . At seven o'clock it was very dark , and I directed the watch I had set for the first part of the night to rig lanterns at the fore-stay and the topping lift of the main-boom . I had a quantity of Bengola lights put in the pilot-house , that we might light up the scene around us , if it should be desirable to do so . -LSB- Illustration : `` I saw the Islander with a house hanging to her bow . '' _ Page 252 .