nine o'clock
The instant the craft was released the sealers manned their hauling lines again , and ran her up lo the rocks with a hurrah ! The margin of water was just opening , but so prompt had been the movement of the men that it was not yet wide enough to permit the vessel to go any further ; and it was found necessary to wait until the passage was sufficiently wide to enable her to move ahead . The intervening time was occupied in bringing to the craft the articles left behind . By nine o'clock everything was on board ; the winding channel that followed the sinuosities of the coast could be traced far as the eye could see ; the lines were manned ; and the word was again given to move . Roswell now felt that he was engaged in much the most delicate of all his duties . The desperate run through the fleet of bergs , and the second attempt to get to sea , were not in certain particulars as hazardous as this . The field had been setting back and forth now , for several weeks ; the margin of cleat water increasing by the attrition at each return to the rocks ; and it was known by observation that these changes often occurred at very short notices .