About nine o'clock
Absorbed by the idea that these warship are powerless against them , they think neither of the difficulties nor menaces held out by the future . I surmise that the trestles have been set up on the northwest coast with the grooves turned to send the engines to the north , west , and south . On the east , as already stated , the island is defended by the chain of reefs that stretches away to the Bermudas . About nine o'clock I venture out of my cell . They will pay little attention to me , and perhaps I may escape notice in the obscurity . Ah ! if I could get through that passage and hide behind some rock , so that I could witness what goes on at daybreak !