three o'clock in the morning of the 26th of November
One day , however , I do not know why , being drawn diagonally by means of the inclined planes , it touched the bed of the sea . The thermometer indicated a temperature of 4.25 -LRB- cent . -RRB- : a temperature that at this depth seemed common to all latitudes . At three o'clock in the morning of the 26th of November the Nautilus crossed the tropic of Cancer at 172 ° long . On 27th instant it sighted the Sandwich Islands , where Cook died , February 14 , 1779 . We had then gone 4,860 leagues from our starting-point . In the morning , when I went on the platform , I saw two miles to windward , Hawaii , the largest of the seven islands that form the group .