About eleven o'clock
One was a small , full-rigged ship , the others were barques . As we slipped along after them I ran our little vessel close to the floating object I have before mentioned , and saw it was a ship 's lower mast , which looked , from the scarcity of marine growth upon it , to have been in the water but a short time . Shortly after , we passed some more wreckage , all of which evidently had belonged to a good lump of the vessel . About eleven o'clock we were close to one of the barques -- a four-boat ship , and also carrying a nine-foot dinghy at her stern . She hoisted the Hawaiian colours in response to ours , and , as the breeze was very light , I hailed her skipper and we began to talk . Our skipper wanted some pump-leather ; he wanted some white sugar . ` Come aboard , ' he said , ` and have dinner with me .