noon
By five o'clock we were on our way across Petchili as if nothing had happened . I have nothing to say regarding this latter half of the journey , during which the Chinese driver -- to do him justice -- in no way endeavored to make up for lost time . But if a few hours more or less were of no importance to us , it was otherwise with Baron Weissschnitzerdörfer , who wanted to catch the Yokohama boat at Tien Tsin . When we arrived there at noon the steamer had been gone for three-quarters of an hour ; and when the German globe-trotter , the rival of Bly and Bisland , rushed on to the platform , it was to learn that the said steamer was then going out of the mouths of the Pei-Ho into the open sea . Unfortunate traveler ! We were not astonished when , as Gaterna said , the baron `` let go both broadsides '' of Teutonic maledictions . And really he had cause to curse in his native tongue .