one o'clock
If these fellows in the canoes are disposed to fight we ca n't prevent them . They will certainly be out of the river before we could get back there ; and even if we did pass first they could easily overtake us , for those light craft of theirs would go two feet to our one unless we had wind for our sail . So we may as well take things easy , and decidedly the first thing to do is to wash and dress Jack 's wound , and then to get some tea and something to eat . We have had nothing since we were caught yesterday between twelve and one o'clock . `` What a lucky thing it was we hid the canoe , Luka ! '' he went on , as the Tartar pulled the boat up alongside the canoe and began to prepare to light a fire . `` The chances are we should not have been able to get her off as well as the boat , and even if we had they would have taken out all our stores .