twelve o’clock
`` She is probably steering for the rendezvous , so by following her we may at least get some important information . '' All day the chase continued , but there was no apparent change in the position of the two vessels . The _ Furious _ was kept on the same course through the night , and to the satisfaction of all on board they found , when morning broke , that they had certainly gained on the schooner , as her mainsails were now visible . At twelve o'clock a low bank of sand was sighted ahead , and the schooner had entered a channel in this two hours later . The _ Furious _ had to be hove-to outside the shoal . The sand extended a long distance , but there were several breaks in it , and from the masthead a net-work of channels could be made out . It was a great disappointment to the crew of the _ Furious _ to have to give up the chase and see the schooner only some four miles off on her way under easy sail .