about four o’clock
Should they be in time to save him ? This was a great event in the life of the colonists ! They themselves were but castaways , but it was to be feared that another might not have been so fortunate , and their duty was to go to his succor . Claw Cape was doubled , and about four o'clock the `` Bonadventure '' dropped her anchor at the mouth of the Mercy . That same evening the arrangements for the new expedition were made . It appeared best that Pencroft and Herbert , who knew how to work the vessel , should undertake the voyage alone . By setting out the next day , the 10th of October , they would arrive on the 13th , for with the present wind it would not take more than forty-eight hours to make this passage of a hundred and fifty miles .