eight o’clock
`` There is one thing , Forster . If you did not put a sentry over the hatchway , neither did I , so I am just as much to blame for the disaster as you are . If I had had a man there they could hardly have cut away the woodwork without his hearing . I certainly wish you to state in your report that you took the watch over from me just as I left it , and that no sentry had been placed there , as ought certainly to have been done when I came on watch at eight o'clock . '' `` It is very kind of you , Gilmore , to wish to take the blame upon your own shoulders , but the responsibility is wholly mine . I ought to have reminded you to put a man there , there can be no question at all about that , but I never gave the matter a thought , and the blunder has cost us nine good seamen . I shall be lucky if I only escape with a tremendous wigging .