eleven o'clock
I saw that he was quite as much exhausted by his mental sufferings as by his physical exertions . I conducted him to my state-room , and gave him my berth . In a short time he was asleep . At eleven o'clock we changed the course of the Sylvania to south-west half-west , which brought the gale nearly on the beam . The wind was blowing but little , if anything , short of a hurricane . The great billows struck against the side of the vessel and the house on deck with tremendous force . It seemed just as though immense boulders were hurled against the planking that enclosed my state-room , the galley , and the engine-room .