about nine in the morning
Don Pedro accompanied me to the ship , and lent me twenty pounds . He took kind leave of me , and embraced me at parting , which I bore as well as I could . During this last voyage I had no commerce with the master or any of his men ; but , pretending I was sick , kept close in my cabin . On the fifth of December , 1715 , we cast anchor in the Downs , about nine in the morning , and at three in the afternoon I got safe to my house at Rotherhith . -LCB- 546 -RCB- My wife and family received me with great surprise and joy , because they concluded me certainly dead ; but I must freely confess the sight of them filled me only with hatred , disgust , and contempt ; and the more , by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them . For although , since my unfortunate exile from the _ Houyhnhnm _ country , I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of _ Yahoos _ , and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez , yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted _ Houyhnhnms _ . And when I began to consider that , by copulating with one of the _ Yahoo _ species I had become a parent of more , it struck me with the utmost shame , confusion , and horror .