about ten o'clock
Both Talcott and myself did very well with the lunars , it is true ; but there was no chance to observe , and even lunars soon get out of their reckoning among currents and tides . Glad enough , then , was I to hear Neb sing but `` Light ahead ! '' from the fore-top-sail-yard . This was about ten o'clock . I knew this light must be the Lizard , as we were too far to the eastward for Scilly . The course was changed so as to bring the light a little on the weather-bow ; and I watched for its appearance to us on deck with an anxiety I have experienced , since , only in the most trying circumstances . Half an hour sufficed for this , and then I felt comparatively happy .