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`` Captain Ringgold gave me his time for leaving there , and also of sailing from Saigon . '' `` When was he to leave the capital of Siam ? '' `` On the first tide Monday morning . This is Saturday , a little after noon , '' replied Scott . `` We have three hundred and twenty-five miles to make . The monsoon is about as fresh here as it has been all the voyage ; and we have used up about half of our coal , so that we are considerably lighter than when we left Kuching , and with the sail we can easily log nine knots an hour . We shall go into the Menan River before sundown to-morrow , and it will take two or three hours to go up to the city .