About nine o'clock
Sure enough it was true ; notwithstanding he was a planter of some property , he made the smallest things turn to profit , and would charge vessels going up the river twelve and a half cents per bottle for milk . The captain had spent a restless night , and found himself blotched with innumerable chinch-bites ; and on examining the berths and lockers , he found them swarming in piles . Calling one of the black men , he commenced overhauling them , and drew out a perfect storehouse of rubbish , which must have been deposited there , without molestation , from the day the vessel was launched up to the present time , as varied in its kinds as the stock of a Jew-shop , and rotten with age . About nine o'clock they got under weigh again , and proceeding about twenty miles with a fair wind and tide , they came to another point in the river , on which a concourse of men had assembled , armed to the teeth with guns , rifles , and knives . As he passed up , they were holding parley with a man and boy in a canoe a few rods from the shore . At every few minutes they would point their rifles at him , and with threatening gestures , swear vengeance against him if he attempted to land . The captain , being excited by the precarious situation of the man and his boy , and anxious to ascertain the particulars , let go his anchor and `` came to '' a few lengths above .