noon
The barge passed within a short distance of the Josephine , and her crew , seeing the trunk and the professor , understood the cheers , and repeated them with all the vigor of their lungs . It was impudent , disrespectful , and naughty ; but the same students , in both vessels , would have wept over the departure of any other of the professors . The boat returned , the sails were cast loose , the anchor weighed , and in due time both vessels were standing down the river . At noon the pilots were discharged , off the Hock of Holland . `` South-west by west , '' said the first master of the ship , giving out the course to the quartermaster , who was conning the wheel . There was only a lazy breeze in the German Ocean , and the squadron rolled slowly along towards the Straits of Dover . The watch below were at their studies in the steerages , while the students on deck were thinking of Paris , and the new scenes which were to be presented to them in the countries they were next to visit .