About noon
I 've got some porridge cooked below . You bring it on deck an ' we 'll have a snack . '' The meal finished , they turned to the rather trying task of waiting for a breeze . About noon Job climbed to the masthead for a reconnaissance and on coming down reported a sail to the east , but no sign of any wind . The sky was dull and overcast so that Job made no effort to determine their bearings . They figured that they had drifted a dozen or more sea-miles to the west since the battle , and were lying somewhere off the little port of New York . The day passed , Job amusing Jeremy with tales of his adventures and old sea-yarns and soon night had overtaken them again .