midnight
-- So ! '' And the old miser clambered into his hammock . Tita drew the mosquito net over him , wrapt another round her own head , and slept , or seemed to sleep ; for she coiled herself up upon the floor , and master and slave soon snored a merry bass to the treble of the mosquitoes . It was long past midnight , and the moon was down . The sentinels , who had tramped and challenged overhead till they thought their officers were sound asleep , had slipped out of the unwholesome rays of the planet to seek that health and peace which they considered their right , and slept as soundly as the bishop 's self . Two long lines glided out from behind the isolated rocks of the Morro Grande , which bounded the bay some five hundred yards astern of the galleon . They were almost invisible on the glittering surface of the water , being perfectly white ; and , had a sentinel been looking out , he could only have descried them by the phosphorescent flashes along their sides .