about nine o'clock in the evening
In two hours more , she came to anchor in Gloucester harbor , and the watch were permitted to go below . A lantern was hoisted on the forestay , and all hands were soon asleep . Our limited space does not permit us to transfer the log of the Flyaway to our pages , and we must hasten on to more exciting events than the ordinary working of the vessel . The party spent the forenoon at Gloucester , and after dinner made sail for Portsmouth , arriving there at about nine o'clock in the evening ; or rather at the mouth of the river , for they anchored off Kittery Point . On Monday morning , the Tenean , which lay upon deck , was put into the water , and the club pulled up to the city . While they were absent , the wind veered round to the northeast , and there were some signs of a storm . It had been the intention of Captain Gordon to run over to the Isles of Shoals in the afternoon , but the weather was so inauspicious that he declined to carry out his purpose .