about ten o'clock
-LSB- Footnote 9 : Americans , or Big Knives . We would remark here , that we have made use altogether of the Shawanoe dialect ; that being most common among all the Ohio tribes , save the Wyandots or Hurons , who spoke an entirely different language . -RSB- -LSB- Footnote 10 : Great Spirit . -RSB- It was about ten o'clock on the evening in question , and Simon Girty was seated by a fire , around which lay stretched at full length some six or eight dark Indian forms , and near him , on the right , two of another sex and race . He was evidently in some deep contemplation ; for his hat and rifle were lying by his side , his hands were locked just below his knees , as if for the purpose of balancing his body in an easy position , and his eyes fixed intently on the flame , that , waving to and fro in the wind , threw over his ugly features a ruddy , flickering light , and extended his shadow to the size and shape of some frightful monster . The clouds of the late storm had entirely passed away , and through the checkered openings in the trees overhead could be discerned a few bright stars , which seemed to sparkle with uncommon brilliancy , owing to the clearness of the atmosphere . All beyond the immediate circle lighted by the fire , appeared dark and silent , save the solemn , almost mournful , sighing of the wind , as it swept among the tree-tops and through the branches of the surrounding mighty forest .