about midnight
His son , too , as one of the actual participators in the pursuit , had a great deal to say upon the subject , and seemed somewhat disposed to draw the long-bow when narrating his own share of the exploit , which tendency I thought it only kind to nip in the bud by giving our version of the affair . Both father and son at first appeared to be considerably nettled when they found that it was to us they owed their discomfiture ; but their better sense speedily prevailed , and they joined as heartily as the rest in the laugh against themselves . On parting at the gangway that night , however , as we prepared to leave for our respective vessels , young Fanshawe laughingly remarked , as he gave our hands a cordial farewell grip : `` You have the laugh on your side at present , Lascelles ; but I warn you that you will not get off so easily the next time I have an opportunity of taking a pot-shot at you . '' We reached the _ Foam _ about midnight ; and next morning at daybreak weighed and worked out of the roadstead with the first of the sea - breeze , nipping sharp round the point as soon as we could weather it and keeping close along to windward of the Palisades until we were abreast of Plum Point ; when , being fairly clear of the shoals , we braced sharp up for Yallah 's Point . Once abreast of this , we were enabled to check our weather-braces a trifle and ease off a foot or two of the main - sheet , when away we went for Morant Point through as nasty a short choppy sea as it has ever been my luck to encounter ; the schooner jerking viciously into it and sending the spray flying from her weather bow right aft into the body of the mainsail and out over the lee quarter . But the discomfort to which we were thus subjected was amply compensated for by the magnificent panorama of wooded mountain , brawling stream , sweeping bay , landlocked inlet , frowning cliff , and white sandy beach , as we skirted the shores of this most beautiful island of Jamaica . We had not been three hours at sea before the unwelcome conviction forced itself upon us that our apprehensions respecting the injury to the _ Foam 's _ sailing powers were only too well founded ; whatever they might originally have been the bungling dockyard riggers had effectually destroyed them .