twelve o’clock
The crew had all clustered into his cabin , and the six white men were deeply grieved , for they were old hands who had sailed with him many years . There were dark looks and murmurs among them too , and one of them openly declared that the ship was haunted . Harton helped to lay the poor skipper out , and we did him up in canvas between us . At twelve o'clock the foreyard was hauled aback , and we committed his body to the deep , Goring reading the Church of England burial service . The breeze has freshened up , and we have done ten knots all day and sometimes twelve . The sooner we reach Lisbon and get away from this accursed ship the better pleased shall I be . I feel as though we were in a floating coffin .