11 o’clock
`` He is so DISTRAIT that he thinks he is at St. Petersburg , '' said the Major , when he saw the geographer wrapped in an immense great-coat , as if the mercury had been frozen in the thermometer . At last on the 9th of May , fifty-three days from the time of leaving Talcahuano , John Mangles sighted the lights of Cape Clear . The yacht entered St. George 's Channel , crossed the Irish Sea , and on the 10th of May reached the Firth of Clyde . At 11 o'clock she dropped anchor off Dunbarton , and at 2 P.M. the passengers arrived at Malcolm Castle amidst the enthusiastic cheering of the Highlanders . As fate would have it then , Harry Grant and his two companions were saved . John Mangles wedded Mary Grant in the old cathedral of St. Mungo , and Mr. Paxton , the same clergyman who had prayed nine months before for the deliverance of the father , now blessed the marriage of his daughter and his deliverer . Robert was to become a sailor like Harry Grant and John Mangles , and take part with them in the captain 's grand projects , under the auspices of Lord Glenarvan .