eight o'clock in the evening
Truly we can not tell what a day may bring forth . I had fallen in with no merchantmen , which would have been a most suspicious circumstance , had I not supposed that they might have been lost in the hurricane , or run into port for shelter , otherwise I should have supposed that they had fallen into the power of the cruisers of the enemy . On the 8th I passed Cape Nichola Mole , and on the 9th made the island of Heneago , bearing nor ' - nor ' - east , four leagues . At eight o'clock in the evening I tacked , and stood off-shore , with a fine breeze , with the intention of passing in the morning between Heneago and the little Corcases , for the purpose of speaking his Majesty 's frigate Aeolus , stationed in that passage , and bearing her the information that the war had broken out . At five o'clock of the morning of the 10th , the wind shifting round to the eastward , I tacked , and stood to the northward , through the Corcases . At daybreak Tom Rockets was sent aloft to keep a look-out for any sail which might be in sight . Soon afterwards he hailed the deck to say that he made out two sail on the lee bow , just appearing above the horizon .