six in the morning
It was agreed that this was the best plan to adopt . It might lead to their sighting the schooner in a day or two , while to row round the bay and search every inlet in it would take them a fortnight . From Genarve , too , a forty-mile sail in the gig would take them into Port au Prince , which the brigantine might possibly have made its headquarters . Accordingly , after waiting until nightfall , they got up sail , and anchored at six in the morning in a small bay in the island of Genarve . Here they would not be likely to attract the notice of any ship passing up to Port au Prince , unless , which was very unlikely , one came along close to the shore . As soon as the anchor was dropped , both boats rowed to shore . Frank , George Lechmere , Pedro , and four sailors , with a basket of provisions , started at once for the highest point in the island , some four miles distant .