two in the morning
`` The distance from Tamu to Manipur is about fifty-five miles . We started at half-past five , on the morning of the 28th . The difficulties were so great that we only moved at the rate of a mile an hour . At two in the morning we started again , and marched about ten miles ; in the course of which we were occasionally fired at by the enemy . The moon rose at eleven , and the advance was continued . `` The resistance now became severe . The telegraph wires had been cut , taken down from the poles , and twisted about the road ; and trees had also been felled across it .