about midnight
I was very glad to hear Dick say this , for although we were at present much better off than we might have been , I was fully alive to our precarious situation . Even should the weather prove fine , we might not reach the shore for many a day , and our provisions and water would not hold out long , while , should it come on to blow , they might be lost , and we should be starved , even if the raft should hold together and we had strength to cling on to it . Dick and I occasionally exchanged remarks after this , but still the time went on very slowly . Neither of us had the heart to call up Mr Harvey ; but about midnight , as far as I could judge , he started up , and calling Jacques , told Dick and me to lie down . We did so thankfully securing ourselves with lashings one on either side of the mast . Before I closed my eyes , I observed that not a star was twinkling in the sky which seemed overcast down to the horizon . Though there was not much wind , there was rather more than there had been , and there was still too much sea on to allow us to set sail .