about four in the afternoon
It must have been some signal . I cast my eyes back on the road we had come , and I thought I saw some figures a mile back , on the edge of the Letaba gorge . He was making sure of my return . By this time it was about four in the afternoon , and as heavenly weather as the heart of man could wish . The meadows were full of aromatic herbs , which , as we crushed them , sent up a delicate odour . The little pools and shallows of the burns were as clear as a Lothian trout-stream . We were now going at a good pace , and I found that my earlier weariness was growing less .