two in the afternoon
After them goes Pim ; finds them to be _ three hares _ , magnified by fog and mirage , and their long ears answering for horns . This same day they got upon the Bay of Mercy . No ship in sight ! Right across it goes the Lieutenant to look for records ; when , at two in the afternoon , Robert Hoile sees something black up the bay . Through the glass the Lieutenant makes it out to be a ship . They change their direction at once . Over the ice towards her !