about three o’clock
After the first day Good succeeded , with the help of some cloth and a couple of poles , in rigging up a sail in each canoe , which lightened our labours not a little . But the current ran very strong against us , and at the best we were not able to make more than twenty miles a day . Our plan was to start at dawn , and paddle along till about half-past ten , by which time the sun got too hot to allow of further exertion . Then we moored our canoes to the bank , and ate our frugal meal ; after which we ate or otherwise amused ourselves till about three o'clock , when we again started , and rowed till within an hour of sundown , when we called a halt for the night . On landing in the evening , Good would at once set to work , with the help of the Askari , to build a little ` scherm ' , or small enclosure , fenced with thorn bushes , and to light a fire . I , with Sir Henry and Umslopogaas , would go out to shoot something for the pot . Generally this was an easy task , for all sorts of game abounded on the banks of the Tana .