eleven o'clock
I exclaimed . `` Well , sir , '' he said coldly , `` is n't it better to eat a dead man than a living one ? '' I was at a loss to comprehend him , and , turning away , laid myself down at the end of the raft . Toward eleven o'clock a most suspicious incident occurred . The boatswain , who had cast his lines early in the morning , caught three large cod , each more than thirty inches long , of the species which , when dried , is known by the name of stock-fish . Scarcely had he hauled them on board when the sailors made a dash at them , and it was with the utmost difficulty that Curtis , Falsten and myself could restore order , so that we might divide the fish into equal portions . Three cod were not much among fourteen starving persons , but , small as the quantity was , it was allotted in strictly equal shares .