six o'clock in the morning
`` Unless he trots , our globe-trotter . '' `` A donkey 's trot does not last long , '' says Caterna , `` and he will not catch the boat . '' `` He will catch it if the train is no later , '' said the major . `` We shall be at Tien Tsin on the 23d at six o'clock in the morning , and the steamer leaves at eleven . '' `` Whether he misses the boat or not , my friends , do not let us miss our walk . '' A bridge of boats crosses the river , and the stream is so swift that the footway rises and falls like the waves of the sea . Madame Caterna , who had ventured on it , began to turn pale .