ten o'clock
We were going into a port , I knew , but what port I did not know . I often had conversations with Jose and the American black , and gained a great deal of information from them ; but I could not discover much of the history of the captain . On that point they refused to be communicative ; occasionally hints were given , and then , as if recollecting themselves , they stopped speaking . It was about three weeks before we made the land of Cuba , and as soon as we did so , the schooner was hove to till night , when sail was again made , and before ten o'clock we saw the lights of the Havannah . When about three miles off we again hove to , and about midnight we perceived under the land the white sails of a schooner , which was standing out . Sail was made , and we ran down to her , and before she was aware that we were an enemy , she was laid by the board and in the possession of our crew . The people belonging to the vessel were handed up , and she was examined .