the hour of ten
I had also heard that Peru was a southern country , and therefore we must be going in a southerly direction to reach it . This was a very good explanation of the warm weather that had set in . The ship had now been sailing for nearly two weeks ; and allowing her to have made two hundred miles a day -LRB- and ships , I knew , often go faster than that -RRB- , she would at this time be a long way from England , and in a different climate altogether . Thus reasoning with myself , I contrived to pass that afternoon and evening , and as I felt the hands of my watch indicating the hour of ten , I resolved , as already stated , to eat the half biscuit , and then go to sleep . I first drew a cup of water , so that the biscuit might not be eaten dry ; and , this done , I stretched forth my hand for the bread . I knew the exact spot where it lay , for I had a little corner , just alongside the great beam , where I kept my knife and cup , and wooden almanack -- a sort of little shelf , raised by a roll of the cloth above the common level of my cell . There I had placed the half biscuit , and there , of course , I could lay my hand upon it as well without a light as with one .