two o'clock
But I had other ideas of the behavior of the captains of the vessels that hung back most . Captain Kirkby of the Defiance and Captain Wade of the Greenwich I knew to be of the anti-Benbow party , and though I had not the same knowledge of Captain Constable of the Windsor and Captain Hudson of the Pendennis , I suspected that they were infected by the same blight , for I could not believe that officers of the English navy could be arrant cowards . On the night of the twenty-fourth I had the middle watch . Towards two o'clock Joe Punchard came to me , smoking a pipe , and looking more miserable than I had ever seen him . `` Twill break my captain 's heart if we have another day of it , '' he says gloomily . `` He looks five years older than he did when we left Port Royal . He ca n't sleep , and if he do fall into a doze he starts up like a child out of a bad dream .