eight o'clock
However this might have been , an hour after the return of the expedition , every soul on board save the watch -- the Count d'Artigas , Serko , and Captain Spade in their respective cabins , and the crew in the fore-castle , were sound asleep . It was not till the next morning , and then very leisurely , that the _ Ebba _ began to make preparations for her departure . From the extremity of New-Berne quay the crew might have been seen holystoning the deck , after which they loosened the reef lines , under the direction of Effrondat , the boatswain , hoisted in the boats and cleared the halyards . At eight o'clock the Count d'Artigas had not yet appeared on deck . His companion , Serko the engineer , as he was called on board , had not quitted his cabin . Captain Spade was strolling quietly about giving orders . The _ Ebba _ would have made a splendid racing yacht , though she had never participated in any of the yacht races either on the North American or British coasts .