two in the afternoon
`` I think she is making a mistake , for I should not care to be mixed up among those shoals if it comes on bad weather ; and it looks like it now . '' `` The wind is hauling more to the southward , and I shall look for a fog before night . '' We kept on our course as laid down in the Coast-pilot , without regard to the Islander . I called the passengers at two in the afternoon , when we again changed our course to south , quarter west , to show them the Islander . She was still headed a point farther to the westward than we were . As our course from this point to Key West was on the circumference of a quarter-circle , I supposed Captain Blastblow only intended to take the shortest way by keeping inside of us , and I did not alter anything . But I was confident that he would have to run outside again in order to avoid the shoals of Virginia and Biscayne Keys .