six o'clock
`` Until six of the clock I am engaged on shore , but at that hour I will have a boat awaiting us at the harbor stairs , and you shall go aboard with me , gentlemen . '' So we agreed and parted with him , Jasper full of the matter , and exclaiming that we should have much to tell the folks at home . I , however , was beginning to get somewhat impatient with respect to our own ship , which its owner now believed to have been unexpectedly detained , and I only regarded the visit to the Santa Luisa as a diversion . At six o'clock that night , Jasper and I met the Spaniard at the harbor stairs and went on board his vessel . We found the Santa Luisa to be a very fine ship , and of much more pretentious appearance as regarded her fittings than our own English trading vessels . We passed an hour or so in examining her , and were then pressed by Senor Nunez to enter his cabin and enjoy his hospitality . I have no very clear recollection of what followed .