eight in the morning
They did not flee at our approach , never having had anything to do with man ; and I reckoned that there were provisions there for hundreds of vessels . `` Sir , '' said Conseil , `` will you tell me the names of these creatures ? '' `` They are seals and morses . '' It was now eight in the morning . Four hours remained to us before the sun could be observed with advantage . I directed our steps towards a vast bay cut in the steep granite shore . There , I can aver that earth and ice were lost to sight by the numbers of sea-mammals covering them , and I involuntarily sought for old Proteus , the mythological shepherd who watched these immense flocks of Neptune .