nearly noon
The members of the Goldwing Club settled down in the most comfortable places they could find . A couple of them took possession of the berths in the cuddy , and two others stretched themselves on the seats in the standing-room . They were not so wild as Captain Vesey had reported them to be on the passage from Burlington . They were faint and hungry ; for it was now nearly noon , and the voyagers in the Missisquoi had fasted the greater part of twenty-four hours . The Goldwing was under the lee of the land , where there was no sea ; but the wind came in very sharp puffs , as the openings in the shore exposed the boat to the unsteady blast . But she carried so little sail that she went along very easily , and showed no more tendency to upset than any well-built boat would in such puffy weather . The party on board saw nothing in her behavior to warrant the bad reputation she had established .