about eight o'clock
But for the well known fact that it is very seldom indeed that these fakirs will utter any of their predictions to Europeans , some of us would have gone to him to test his powers . As it was , none of us had ever seen him . `` He lived in an old ruined temple , in the middle of a large patch of jungle at the foot of the hills , some ten or twelve miles away . `` I had been at Jubbalpore about a year , when I was woke up one night by a native , who came in to say that at about eight o'clock a tiger had killed a man in his village , and had dragged off the body . `` Simmonds and I were constantly out after tigers , and the people in all the villages within twenty miles knew that we were always ready to pay for early information . This tiger had been doing great damage , and had carried off about thirty men , women , and children . So great was the fear of him , indeed , that the people in the neighborhood he frequented scarcely dared stir out of doors , except in parties of five or six .