about ten o'clock
That 's the worst of a battle ; there are so many young boys on board who often get as cruelly hurt as the men , and have n't the strength to bear up against their sufferings . Well , as I was saying , we pulled about , picking up the half-burnt struggling wretches wherever we could find them among the bits of floating wreck . Only seventy were saved out of many more than a thousand men on board . That was about ten o'clock . For some time not a shot was fired . Every man felt that something awful had happened , but still many of the Frenchmen had n't given in . So at it again we went , and blazed away at each other till three in the morning .