eleven o'clock in the
evening
`` With a good wind , we shall go far , but we must especially go high ! '' `` We are lost ! '' `` In the Antilles there are currents of air which travel a hundred leagues an hour ! On the occasion of Napoleon 's coronation , Gavnerin let off a balloon illuminated with coloured lamps , at eleven o'clock in the evening ! The wind blew from the N.N.E. ; the next morning at daybreak the inhabitants of Rome saluted its passage above the dome of St. Peter 's . We will go farther . '' I scarcely heard him ; everything was buzzing around me !