six in the morning
Before we went on board we had engaged four mules and two wagons , which were to be taken on board of the steamer the next morning . I had every sort of fishing-tackle in abundance , and both the colonel and Owen had complete outfits of rods and reels , with a vast variety of lines , hooks , squids , sinkers , gaffs , and landing-nets . Each of them had two sporting pieces , and all the equipments of a hunter . Before six in the morning , the mules appeared on the wharf , drawing the wagons , which were nothing but `` hay-riggings . '' They had stakes and rails , so that seats could be put on them . Of course the mules made a row about going on board ; but they went , for all that . We took in an abundance of forage and grain for them .