midnight
`` Quite . He settled in the Colony and married there . I have heard of him from time to time for many years . '' * * * * * Before midnight the three white men , with twenty-five of their native followers armed with muskets and cutlasses , were following the coastline in the direction of Gape Stephens . The night was dark and rainy , but the route was familiar to both Adams and Stenhouse . All night they marched steadily onward , and only when daylight broke did they halt on the banks of a stream to rest and eat . Then , crossing the stream , they struck a native path which led to the shore .