eight o'clock
Besides , Berselius had told him that the Belgians had stopped the liquor traffic and stopped the Arab raiders . There was good and bad on the side of the Belgians , and the niggers were niggers . So reasoned Adams , and with reason enough , though from insufficient data . At eight o'clock in the blazing sunshine , that even then was oppressive , the expedition started . The white men leading , Félix coming immediately behind , and eleven of the soldiers , bearing the tents and stores for two days , following after . They plunged into the forest , taking a dim track , which was the rubber track from the village of the Silent Pools and from half a dozen other villages to the west . The ground here was different from the ground they had traversed in coming to the fort .