six o’clock P.M.
`` Forwards ! '' cried all with one voice . So it was decided , and , as it turned out , the decision was fraught with consequences of incalculable importance . At six o'clock P.M. Madge rose , and pointing to a point on the south-east , cried -- `` Land ! '' Every one started up as if struck by lightning . Land there was indeed , on the south-east , twelve miles from the island . `` More sail !