four o’clock in the afternoon
assented Kennedy . `` Come , now , Mr. Kennedy , are you sorry that you came with us ? '' `` I 'd like to see anybody prevent my coming ! '' It was now four o'clock in the afternoon . The Victoria had struck a more rapid current . The face of the country was gradually rising , and , ere long , the barometer indicated a height of fifteen hundred feet above the level of the sea . The doctor was , therefore , obliged to keep his balloon up by a quite considerable dilation of gas , and the cylinder was hard at work all the time .