one o'clock
`` How do you like it ? '' `` Did n't like it a bit ; I like ` Robinson Crusoe ' , '' was the candid reply . The noon hour came , still the white rollers were pounding the shore . `` If it does not calm by one o'clock I 'll go on afoot . '' So off he went with the packet , leaving Quonab to follow and await his return at Fort George . In Schuyler settlement he spent the night and at noon next day was in Albany . How it stirred his soul to see the busy interest , the marching of men , the sailing of vessels , and above all to hear of more victories on the high seas .