twelve o’clock
`` Well , I do n't mind now if we stop here for another month . We have meat and biscuits , and I reckon , Mr. Stephen , that you will be able to think of some plan for making flap-jacks out of the flour , and we have found a cocoa-nut grove . So we shall be able to live like kings . '' The next morning Stephen was again left in charge of the fire , and the other two started to fetch a fresh load of cocoa-nuts , saying that they should be back by twelve o'clock , and should expect to find that he had got something new for them . After putting a piece of meat into the well Stephen made a fresh experiment . Fishing out a great lump of fat from the cask , he first washed it carefully to get rid of the salt , then put it into half a cocoa-nut shell , placed this on some hot embers and fried the fat until most of it melted , and then squeezed the remainder between two flat stones . Then he poured the fat into another cocoa-nut half full of milk , put three or four pounds of flour on a flat rock , made a hollow in the middle as he had seen the servant do at home while making pastry , poured the liquor gradually into this , mixing it up with the flour until he had made the whole into dough .