about eight o'clock in the morning
The aeronef sped along to the north , and at the sixtieth parallel the storm showed signs of dying away . Its violence sensibly diminished . The `` Albatross '' began to come under control again . And , what was a great comfort , had again entered the lighted regions of the globe ; and the day reappeared about eight o'clock in the morning . Robur had been carried by the storm into the Pacific over the polar region , accomplishing four thousand three hundred and fifty miles in nineteen hours , or about three miles a minute , a speed almost double that which the `` Albatross '' was equal to with her propellers under ordinary circumstances . But he did not know where he then was owing to the disturbance of the needle in the neighborhood of the magnetic pole , and he would have to wait till the sun shone out under convenient conditions for observation . Unfortunately , heavy clouds covered the sky all that day and the sun did not appear .