ten o'clock in the morning of the sixth of February
But how inconceivably brief it seemed to him when he recalled all he had experienced in that period , both in his waking and sleeping hours . On the _ Hamburg _ , he no longer dreamed at night . A mighty blast had swept his soul clean and denuded it of all images . Shortly before ten o'clock in the morning of the sixth of February , Captain Butor , standing back of Ella Liebling , who was sitting under the telescope merrily kicking her thin legs , spied land . It was a tremendously stirring moment when the news was carried to the passengers . The steward that called it into Frederick 's cabin and the next instant disappeared little realised how his brief announcement , `` Land ! '' affected the stranger .