four o'clock in the morning
I 'll read you her words -- '' Peter Bligh said , `` Ah , '' and struck a match . Seth Barker , the carpenter , sat for all the world like a child , with his great mouth wide open and his eyes full of wonder . Dolly Venn was curled up at my feet like a dog . I opened the papers and began to read to them : `` On the 14th of August , three weeks after the ship brought us to Ken 's Island , I was awakened at four o'clock in the morning by an alarm-bell ringing somewhere in the island . The old servant , she whom they called ` Mother Meg , ' came into my room in great haste to tell me to get up . When I was dressed my husband entered and laughingly said that we must go on board the yacht at once . I was perplexed and a little cross about it ; but when we were rowed out to the ship , I found that all the white people were leaving the island in boats and being rowed to those rocks which lie upon the northward side .