about eleven o’clock
Manoel could be trusted for that , and the girls -- for Lina could not leave her mistress -- went prepared for a walk , an excursion of two or three leagues being not too long to frighten them . Neither Joam Garral nor Yaquita had time to go with them . For one reason the plan of the jangada was not yet complete , and it was necessary that its construction should not be interrupted for a day , and another was that Yaquita and Cybele , well seconded as they were by the domestics of the fazenda , had not an hour to lose . Minha had accepted the offer with much pleasure , and so , after breakfast on the day we speak of , at about eleven o'clock , the two young men and the two girls met on the bank at the angle where the two streams joined . One of the blacks went with them . They all embarked in one of the ubas used in the service of the farm , and after having passed between the islands of Iquitos and Parianta , they reached the right bank of the Amazon . They landed at a clump of superb tree-ferns , which were crowned , at a height of some thirty feet with a sort of halo made of the dainty branches of green velvet and the delicate lacework of the drooping fronds .