midnight
Then winter made its second appearance since the Sea Lion had sailed , filling the minds of the mariners ' friends with sad forebodings as they listened to the meanings of the gales that accompanied that bleak and stormy quarter of the year . Deep and painful were the anticipations of the deacon , in whom failing health , and a near approach to the `` last of earth , '' came to increase the gloom . As for Mary , youth and health sustained her ; but her very soul was heavy , as she pondered on so long and uncertain an absence . `` Safely in harbour Is the king 's ship ; in the deep nook , where once Thou calledst me up at midnight to fetch dew From the still vex 'd Bermoothes , there she 's hid . '' _ Tempest . _ The letter of Roswell Gardiner last received , bore the date of December 10th , 1819 , or just a fortnight after he had sailed from Rio de Janeiro . We shall next present the schooner of Deacon Pratt to the reader on the 18th of that month , or three weeks and one day after she had sailed from the capital of Brazil .