nearly eight o'clock
`` Men come for baggage , sar , '' Ugly Tom said , putting his head in the tent door . `` They have lost no time about it , Frank , '' Mr. Goodenough exclaimed . `` It was midday yesterday when the messenger left us . He had forty-five miles to run , and could not have been in till pretty nearly eight o'clock , and these men must have started at once . '' There was no time lost . While the Houssas were pulling down and packing up the tent Ostik prepared two bowls of chocolate with biscuit soaked in it . By the time that this was eaten the carriers had taken up their loads , and two minutes later the whole party started almost at a trot .