three o'clock
Now the manner of the wreck was this , and our concern with it . So nearly as I can learn , the _ Saint Andrew _ came ashore at two hours after noon : the date , the 20th of January , 1526 , and the weather at the time coarse and foggy with a gale yet blowing from the south-west or a good west of south , but sensibly abating , and the tide wanting an hour before low water . It happened that Mr. Saint Aubyn was riding , with twenty men at his back , homeward from Gweek , where he had spent three days on some private business , when he heard news of the wreck at a farmhouse on the road to Helleston : and so turning aside , he , whose dwelling lay farthest from it , came first to the cove . The news reached us at Pengersick a little after three o'clock ; as I remember because my Master was just then settled to dinner . But he rose at once and gave word to saddle in haste , at the same time bidding me make ready to ride with him , and fifteen others . So we set forth and rode -- the wind lulling , but the rain coming down steadily -- and reached Gunwallo Cove with a little daylight to spare . On the beach there we found most of the foreigners landed , but seven of them laid out starkly , who had been drowned or brought ashore dead -LRB- for the yard had fallen on board , the day before , and no time left in the ship 's extremity to bury them -RRB- : and three as good as dead -- among whom was Master Porson , with a great wound of the scalp ; also everywhere great piles of freight , chests , bales , and casks -- a few staved and taking damage from salt water and rain , but the most in apparent good condition .