half past eight
`` It is Egero Light , and we are about fifty miles from the Naze of Norway . We are making about four knots , and if the breeze holds , we ought to see Gunnarshoug Light by one o'clock . '' Captain Cumberland went on deck to see the light reported . Though it was half past eight , the sun had but just set , and the light , eighteen miles distant , could be distinctly seen . It created a great deal of excitement and enthusiasm among the young officers and seamen , who had read enough about Norway to be desirous of seeing it . For weeks the young gentlemen on board the ship had been talking of Norway , and reading up all the books in the library relating to the country and its people . They had read with interest the accounts of the various travellers who had visited it , including Ross Brown , in Harper 's Monthly , and Bayard Taylor , and had studied Harper , Murray , Bradshaw , and other Guides on the subject .