one in the afternoon
`` That 's the leeward point of Makemo , '' McCoy said . `` Katiu is only a few miles to the west . We may make that . '' But the current , sucking between the two islands , swept them to the northwest , and at one in the afternoon they saw the palms of Katiu rise above the sea and sink back into the sea again . A few minutes later , just as the captain had discovered that a new current from the northeast had gripped the Pyrenees , the masthead lookouts raised cocoanut palms in the northwest . `` It is Raraka , '' said McCoy . `` We wo n't make it without wind .