midnight
However , I was up and down a good deal during the night . But for the treasure I should have been less anxious , I dare say . I had come so successfully to this point that I was resolved , if my hopes were to miscarry , the misfortune should not be owing to want of vigilance on my part ; and there happened an incident which inevitably tended to sharpen my watchfulness , though I was perfectly conscious there was a million to one against its occurring a second time . I came on deck to relieve Wilkinson , at midnight , after a half-hour 's nodding doze by the furnace below . He went to his cabin ; I stood under the lee of a cloth seized in the weather main rigging . Pitt arrived , and I told him he could return to the cook-house and stay there till I called him . The helm being lashed , and the schooner doing very well , nothing wanted watching in particular , yet I would not have the deck abandoned , and meant to keep a look-out , turn and turn about with Pitt , as Wilkinson and Cromwell had .