about eight o'clock
The rising sun found him purposefully splashing on , weary but enheartened by the discovery that he had left behind the more thickly wooded section of the island . Presently , turning in to the dry beach for the first time , he climbed to the summit of a dune somewhat higher than its fellows , and took observations , finding that he had come near to the eastern extremity of the island . At some distance to his right a wagon road , faintly rutted in sand and overgrown with beach grass , struck inland . Following this at a venture , he came , at about eight o'clock , upon the outskirts of a waterside community . Before proceeding he hid the magazine rifle in a thicket , then made a wide detour , and picked up a roadway which entered the village from the north . If his disreputable appearance was calculated to excite comment , readiness in disbursing money to remedy such shortcomings made amends for Lanyard 's taciturnity . Within two hours , shaved , bathed , and inconspicuously dressed in a cheap suit of ready-made clothing , he was breakfasting famously upon the plain fare of a commercial tavern .