eleven at night
Progress was impossible , and the party cramped up in the hold suffered greatly from hunger and thirst . On Thursday evening they could sustain it no longer and landed . They were for a time scarce able to walk , so cramped were their limbs by their long confinement , and made their way up painfully to a fortified building called Nordand , standing far from any other habitations . Here they obtained food and drink , and remained until eleven at night . One of the boatmen came to them with news that the wind had changed , and was now blowing in from the sea . They again took their places on board , but the water was low in the river , and it was difficult work passing the shallows , and it was not until Saturday afternoon that they passed the boom below the town and entered the inner harbour . An officer of the guard came off in a boat and boarded the barge .