five o’clock in the morning
Conseil did likewise . I did n't encounter Captain Nemo while going down the gangways . I assumed that he was keeping to the pilothouse . The next day , March 19 , at five o'clock in the morning , I was back at my post in the lounge . The electric log indicated that the Nautilus had reduced speed . By then it was rising to the surface , but cautiously , while slowly emptying its ballast tanks . My heart was pounding .