five o'clock
`` I suppose we may as well stay right here . '' The hour passed and they lay there side by side , very silently , their chins in their hands like dreaming children . In back of them squatted the negroes , patient , resigned , acquiescent , announcing now and then with sonorous snores that not even the presence of danger could subdue their unconquerable African craving for sleep . Just before five o'clock Babe approached Carlyle . There were half a dozen rifles aboard the Narcissus he said . Had it been decided to offer no resistance ? A pretty good fight might be made , he thought , if they worked out some plan .