eleven o'clock
`` We could show a rag of canvas outside now . We had best make a long leg out to sea , and then , when the wind goes down , we can make Balaklava . '' For four or five hours the boat was buffeted in the tremendous seas , but gradually , as the wind went down , these abated , and after running twenty miles off the land , the boat 's head was turned , and she began to beat back to Balaklava . It was eleven o'clock that night before they reached the `` Falcon , '' officers and men completely worn out with their exertions . Jack found to his satisfaction that no report of his being missing had been received by the captain , and next morning at daybreak he and Lieutenant Myers walked up to camp , regretting the loss of their ponies , which would , however , they were sure , be found by the Russians long ere they finished the stores of provender within their reach . Upon reaching camp they found that their absence had not been noticed until the afternoon of the second day of their absence . They had been seen to ride away together , and when in the evening they were found to be absent , it was supposed that they had gone down to Balaklava and slept there .