ten o'clock
So up the halyards went , and with them went a warning that whoever jumped to loosen them would get a gaff-hook in his breeches and be hauled down ignominiously . This time when the log was hauled for the hour from three to four in the afternoon it showed a total of seventeen knots , or a fraction under twenty miles for the hour . And best of all , the three flying schooners had come back five miles . By ten o'clock that night Code judged they had come back five more , and knew that the next day would bring the test . They were not in over-deep water here , for the coast of Nova Scotia is extended for miles out under the sea in excellent fishing shoals and banks . At Artimon Bank they switched their course to westward so as to pass inside of Sable Island and round Cape Sable in the shoalest water possible . Down across Western they roared , and almost to Le Have before midnight came .