ten o'clock
At length , he too arrived , bringing , as it were , the month with him ; and then he lost no more time . About five miles from the walls on the south or landward side , he drew his hordes together in the likeness of a line of battle , and at a trumpet call they advanced in three bodies simultaneously . So a tidal wave , far extending , broken , noisy , terrible , rises out of the deep , and rolls upon a shore of stony cliffs . Near ten o'clock in the forenoon of the sixth of April the Emperor mounted the roof of the tower of St. Romain , mentioned as at the left of the gate bearing the same name . There were with him Justiniani , the Cardinal Isidore , John Grant , Phranza , Theophilus Palaeologus , Duke Notaras , and a number of inferior persons native and foreign . He had come to see all there was to be seen of the Turks going into position . The day was spring-like , with just enough breeze to blow the mists away .