About eleven o'clock in the morning
Sometimes they catch them with a viscous birdlime that paralyses their movements . They even go so far as to poison the fountains that the birds generally drink from . But we were obliged to fire at them during flight , which gave us few chances to bring them down ; and , indeed , we vainly exhausted one half our ammunition . About eleven o'clock in the morning , the first range of mountains that form the centre of the island was traversed , and we had killed nothing . Hunger drove us on . The hunters had relied on the products of the chase , and they were wrong . Happily Conseil , to his great surprise , made a double shot and secured breakfast .