about three o'clock in the
afternoon
Now there were armies of penguins and myriads of birds ; and , when the `` Albatross '' turned on her electric lamps the guillemots , ducks , and geese came crowding on board enough to fill Tapage 's larder a hundred times and more . Here was work for the cook , who knew how to bring out the flavor of the game and keep down its peculiar oiliness . And here was work for Frycollin in plucking dozen after dozen of such interesting feathered friends . That day , as the sun was setting about three o'clock in the afternoon , there appeared in sight a large lake framed in a border of superb forest . The lake was completely frozen over , and a few natives with long snowshoes on their feet were swiftly gliding over it . At the sight of the `` Albatross , '' the Fuegians , overwhelmed with terror -- scattered in all directions , and when they could not get away they hid themselves , taking , like the animals , to the holes in the ground . The `` Albatross '' still held her southerly course , crossing the Beagle Channel , and Navarin Island and Wollaston Island , on the shores of the Pacific .