five o’clock in the afternoon
Can I have three months from the present time ? '' `` Certainly , and I hope you will be able to make good use of it . '' Returning to his ship , Will at once made out the list of the stores he required , and sent Harman on shore with it , telling him to take two boats and bring everything back with him . At five o'clock in the afternoon the two boats returned , carrying all the stores required . The water-tanks had already been filled up , and a quarter of an hour later the cutter was under sail and leaving the harbour . Will , of course , had nothing whatever to guide him in his search for the schooner beyond the fact that she was heading west at the time when he last saw her . At that time they were to the south of Porto Rico , so he concluded that she was making for Cuba .