seven o'clock in the morning
-LSB- Illustration : A LIGHT ! A LIGHT ! -RSB- The Return -- Discussion -- Cyrus Harding and the Stranger -- Port Balloon -- The Engineer 's Devotion -- A touching Incident -- Tears flow . The next day , the 20th of October , at seven o'clock in the morning , after a voyage of four days , the _ Bonadventure _ gently glided up to the beach at the mouth of the Mercy . Cyrus Harding and Neb , who had become very uneasy at the bad weather and the prolonged absence of their companions , had climbed at daybreak to the plateau of Prospect Heights , and they had at last caught sight of the vessel which had been so long in returning . `` God be praised ! there they are ! ''