eleven o'clock
`` You 've plenty of hands on board , mate , '' said Bramble . `` Yes , plenty of them , such as they are ; we 've twenty of the ship 's company , and twenty-five passengers from Malta . '' After breakfast the captain ordered up the small-arm men ; five seamen and fifteen of the passengers made their appearance with their muskets , which were examined , and they were dismissed . At eleven o'clock , as we neared the land , the men were ordered to quarters , the guns cast loose , and they were exercised as on board of a man-of-war , the captain giving his orders with his speaking-trumpet . `` Double-shot your guns ! Run out ! Point your guns !