six o'clock
The last thing Mark Elmer saw as he left the deck , driven below by the bitter cold , was the gleam of the light on Owl 's Head , outside which Captain Drew said they should find the sea pretty rough . The rest of the family had gone below some time before , and Mark found that his mother was already very sea-sick . He felt rather uncomfortable himself , and did not care much for the supper , of which his father and Ruth eat so heartily . He said he thought he would go to bed , before supper was half over , and did so , although it was only six o'clock . Poor Mark ! it was a week before he again sat at table or went on deck . During this week the Nancy Bell sailed along the coasts of Maine , New Hampshire , Massachusetts , New York , New Jersey , Delaware , Maryland , Virginia , and North Carolina .