three o'clock
Some of the islands covered many square miles , contained large plantations , and had names as well as numbers . Island Forty , reached about ten o'clock , was also Beef Island . Number Thirty-eight , which they began to pass half an hour later , was Brandywine Island . To pass Island Thirty-five on its short side at full speed took half an hour , and Forked-Deer Island , which kept the boat flying up a narrow chute from half-past two till three o'clock , was old Twenty-seven and Twenty-six grown together . Now , these things are geography rather than history . But for at least two souls aboard the _ Votaress _ they were more history than geography . History -- they were life !