eight o'clock
Mr. Tiffany and my father could play chess all day long , and most of the night . The meals were served as elaborately as at a first-class hotel , and we had everything from the market that could be supplied in the summer in the northern states . I was decidedly of the opinion that our passengers had nothing to worry about , unless Colonel Shepard could be excused for worrying about his steamer . At eight o'clock the first watch went on duty , in charge of Washburn , who was as competent to handle the vessel as I was . He had the chart , with the courses and distances marked on it . When I left the pilot-house , Cape Canaveral , or rather the light on it , was in sight . At nine o'clock we were just abreast of it , which proved that our dead reckoning was correct .