six p.m.
He opened at random : `` Comes in with strong wind from SSE with rain squalls . Very ugly sea on . Double reefed the Topsails , reefed the courses and furled the mainsail . At six p.m. shipped a very heavy sea that carried away the bulwarks on the larboard quarter and stove those on the starboard quarter and amidships ... upper cabin filled with water . Through the night strong gales ... . Lightning at all points of the compass . '' The memory of this night , six days out from Manilla to Hong Kong , was clearer than the actuality of the room in which he sat , an old man with his activity , his strength , his manhood , far behind him , a hulk .