four p.m.
I did not the less wish to see the world , but I did not much like the company with whom I was likely to see it ; Mr Stovin and his rope 's - ending were not agreeable companions . From Cape Clear we took a fresh departure . A ship is said to take her departure from a point , the distance and the bearing of the point being ascertained when her course is marked off from the spot where she then is . At four p.m. Cape Clear bore five miles north-east of us , or rather we were five miles south-west of the Cape . This spot was marked on the chart ; and the distance run , and the course by compass , were each day afterwards pricked off in like manner on the charts . The distance run is measured by the log , which is hove every two hours . The log is a small triangular piece of wood , secured to the end of a long line , on which divisions are marked , bearing the same proportion to a mile which a half-minute bears to an hour .