ten o'clock
Therefore by daybreak every man was at work . The hatches were opened , and soon between-decks was cumbered with boxes , packing cases , barrels , and crates . In their improvised stalls , the patient horses seemed to catch a hint of shore-going and whinnied . By ten o'clock there loomed against the strange coast line of the Pictured Rocks , a shallow bay and what looked to be a dock distorted by the northern mirage . `` That 's her , '' said the captain . Two hours later the steamboat swept a wide curve , slid between the yellow waters of two outlying reefs , and , with slackened speed , moved slowly toward the wharf of log cribs filled with stone . The bay or the dock Thorpe had never seen .