About midnight
`` A tempestuous wind called Euroclydon , '' repeated the reader . `` Well , you may call it a Rock-me-down , but I say the regular-built name o n't is Levanter ; but then I s ` pose them thunderin ' printers puts in any thing they 're a mind to . '' The reading proceeded without much more interruption , except that the honest tars , who had been up the Mediterranean , were not a little puzzled by the strange names of places , and could not imagine what part of the world the saint had got into . `` About midnight the shipmen deemed that they drew near to some country ; and sounded , and found it twenty fathoms ; and when they had gone a little further , they sounded again , and found it fifteen fathoms . '' `` Egad , I should think they was drawin ' nigh to some country pretty thunderin ' fast too , when they shoalened their water so quick , from twenty to fifteen faddom . '' `` Then fearing lest they should have fallen upon rocks , they cast four anchors out of the stern , and wished for day . '' `` Four anchors out of the starn ! ''