six o'clock
The ship-men called it the Hook of Holland . But this was not thought right for the port of our destination , so we put to sea again , where we were too much tossed about for the comfort of my stomach . Indeed , every one on board of the ship felt the inconvenience ; and two exceedingly pious women informed me that it interfered with their religious duties . It was upon a Thursday night , at six o'clock , that we arrived at an outlandish place called , as I think , Zurichsee , where we met with much inhumanity and uncourteousness . Indeed , unless a Scots merchant , accustomed to adventuring to the Low Countries , had been of our company , it might have gone hardly with us , for the barbarous folk had some custom of ill-treating strangers who arrive upon a day of carnival . They entered our bark and began to ill-treat us even with blows and by taking from us what of money we had . But mercifully they were restrained before I had put my sword into them , which , in their own country and engaged in ungodliness , it had been no little folly to do .