about midday
Pentuer raised his glittering talisman , and made some signs in the air with it . Tutmosis gave a low whistle ; that whistle was repeated in distant ravines on the right and the left . Egyptian slingers began to climb up the hillsides . It was about midday . Ramses recovered gradually from his first impressions and looked around carefully . He saw his staff , a division of spearmen and axemen under veteran officers , finally slingers , advancing along the cliff leisurely . And he was convinced that not one of those men had the wish to die or even to fight and move around in that heat , which was terrible .