eleven o'clock
`` They are not regular oyster pirates , '' Nicholas continued . `` They 've just come down for the lark and to make a few dollars . But we 'll have to watch out for them . '' We sat in the cockpit and discussed the details of our plan till eleven o'clock had passed , when we heard the rattle of an oar in a boat from the direction of the _ Ghost _ . We hauled up our own skiff , tossed in a few sacks , and rowed over . There we found all the skiffs assembling , it being the intention to raid the beds in a body . To my surprise , I found barely a foot of water where we had dropped anchor in ten feet .