ten o'clock in the morning
`` What 's the use o ' goin ' to San Diego ; lookin ' for a street they have n't got in the town ? Of course we 'll try the island -- nothin ' else for us to do . '' The distance from the mainland to the island of Catalina is only about twenty miles , and the steamer from San Pedro makes the trip in something like two hours and a half . At ten o'clock in the morning Clancy and Hill went aboard , at ten-fifteen the boat got under way , and promptly at ten-seventeen Hiram became seasick . There was n't anything halfway about it , either , he was sick all through and all over . For an hour he was afraid he was going to die , and for an hour and a half he was afraid he was n't . Clancy was so busy with Hill that he had no time to enjoy the trip .