About twelve o'clock
-LSB- Illustration : `` RECTUS SHOWED ME THE MAP . '' -RSB- Now , that boy was no fool . I believe that he was beginning to feel like doing something , and , as he had never done anything before , he did n't know how . About twelve o'clock we reached the mouth of the Savannah -LRB- without turning back -RRB- , and sailed twenty miles up the river to the city . We were the first two persons off that vessel , and we took a hack to the hotel that the purser had recommended to us , and had the satisfaction of reaching it about ten minutes ahead of the people who came in the omnibus ; although I do n't know that that was of much use to us , as the clerk gave us top rooms , any way . We went pretty nearly all over Savannah that afternoon and the next day . It 's a beautiful city .