about midnight
Then came furious seas , and the terrors of a lee shore ; the frapping of the ship and the casting overboard of tackle , the jettisoning of freight -- `` And when neither sun nor stars in many days appeared , and no small tempest lay on us , all hope that we should be saved was then taken away . '' Somehow the absolute fidelity of the sea-life of the story went to Campbell 's heart , and the figure of Paul the mariner was clearer than the figure of Paul the Apostle . `` Howbeit , we must be cast upon a certain island . `` But when the fourteenth night was come , as we were driven up and down in Adria , about midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country -- '' The intuition of seamanship . The flash . How modern ! Oh , Paul lived in that sea .