nine o’clock in the morning
-- Kennedy 's Weapons . -- One of Joe 's Manoeuvres . -- A Halt over a Forest . On the 27th of May , at nine o'clock in the morning , the country presented an entirely different aspect . The slopes , extending far away , changed to hills that gave evidence of mountains soon to follow . They would have to cross the chain which separates the basin of the Niger from the basin of the Senegal , and determines the course of the water-shed , whether to the Gulf of Guinea on the one hand , or to the bay of Cape Verde on the other . As far as Senegal , this part of Africa is marked down as dangerous .