six o'clock
The Nautilus penetrated into the Straits of Jubal , which leads to the Gulf of Suez . I distinctly saw a high mountain , towering between the two gulfs of Ras-Mohammed . It was Mount Horeb , that Sinai at the top of which Moses saw God face to face . At six o'clock the Nautilus , sometimes floating , sometimes immersed , passed some distance from Tor , situated at the end of the bay , the waters of which seemed tinted with red , an observation already made by Captain Nemo . Then night fell in the midst of a heavy silence , sometimes broken by the cries of the pelican and other night-birds , and the noise of the waves breaking upon the shore , chafing against the rocks , or the panting of some far-off steamer beating the waters of the Gulf with its noisy paddles . From eight to nine o'clock the Nautilus remained some fathoms under the water . According to my calculation we must have been very near Suez .