one o'clock
she asked in astonishment . `` Eight hundred miles , '' replied Komoru . `` See , it is nearly two-thirty . The first men with the faster planes were to have arrived at one o'clock . '' A little later they passed over the dimly discernible coast line , some thirty or forty miles to the east of Galveston . Komoru carefully consulted his compass , watch and aneroid , and made a slight change in his course . `` Where do we land ? ''