About ten o'clock
The rest of the night was spent around the fire , which was kept up to enable Jan to dry his clothes . By daylight the tide had risen , so that the lighter again floated on an even keel . By sunrise a simple breakfast of bread-and-butter and coffee had been eaten , and our emigrants were once more afloat and moving slowly up the tropical-looking river . About ten o'clock Captain Johnson pointed to a huge dead cypress-tree standing on the bank of the river some distance ahead , and told the Elmers that it marked one of the boundary-lines of Wakulla . They gazed at it eagerly , as though expecting it to turn into something different from an ordinary cypress , and all felt more or less disappointed at not seeing any clearings or signs of human habitations . It was not until they were directly opposite the village that they saw its score or so of houses through the trees and undergrowth that fringed the bank . As the Bangs place , to which the children gave the name of `` Go Bang '' -- a name that adhered to it ever afterwards -- was across the river from the village , the lighter was poled over to that side .