ten o'clock
He got one leg out of his berth when we were going down the Channel , and he was too sick to pull it in again till we got to Gib ! '' I compromised on a drink and some biscuits . The ship was certainly steadier , and I felt sufficiently restored to climb weakly on deck . It was by this time past ten o'clock , and heavy clouds blotted out the last of the afterglow , and smothered the stars at their birth . A wet warm wind was lashing the _ Eileen Oge _ up a wide estuary ; the waves were hunting her , hissing under her stern , racing up to her , crested with the white glow of phosphorus , as she fled before them . I dimly discerned in the greyness the more solid greyness of the shore . The mainsail loomed out into the darkness , nearly at right angles to the yacht , with the boom creaking as the following wind gave us an additional shove .