four o'clock in the morning
_ -RSB- `` The fore topgallant halliard was not made fast to the cleat , and when it ran out , it jerked her from it , '' replied the commander . `` It ought not to have been loose , and there is a bit of discipline for some jack-tar . '' The ship went along as before ; and when the passengers turned out the next morning Manila was in sight , and not five miles distant . The ship had slowed down in the afternoon , and reached the entrance of Manila Bay about eight bells , or four o'clock in the morning . At the Boca Grande she had taken a pilot ; but she still had twenty-five miles to run . She had come in by the larger of the two passages , formed by a group of islands , both of which are called `` mouths '' -LRB- _ bocas _ -RRB- ; and the smaller of them is the Boca Chica . The Blanche had followed the example of the Guardian-Mother in slowing down , and had taken a pilot at about the same time .