eight
o'clock in the evening
Nothing else , according to the Captain , could account for a storm so sudden , or for all this strange thickness of the air . He is confident now of our safety . The storm may subside in an hour . '' There was not the slightest cessation of the storm , however , till eight o'clock in the evening . Even then the night continued thick and wild . Fortunately the sea was vast and deep . There was nothing known in two hundred miles on which the ship could blunder .