About ten o'clock
There followed a sickening upward whirl between sea and sky , and then the comforting grasp of many welcoming hands from the deck above . By three o'clock in the morning the transfer had been made . Vandover boarded the Cape Horner in company with the pilot and the rest and reached San Francisco late on the next day , which happened to be a Sunday . About ten o'clock Vandover went ashore in the ship 's yawl and landed in the city on a literally perfect day in early November . It seemed many years since he had been there . The drizzly morning upon which the _ Santa Rosa _ had cast off was already too long ago to be remembered . The city itself as he walked up Market Street toward Kearney seemed to have taken on a strange appearance .