about nine o'clock
Questions of great significance to them at the time . After a while he dozed off to sleep , but during the night awoke about once every half hour , and with a shout of , -- `` Where 's Bimbo -- darn Bimbo -- lazy Bimbo ! '' and then would drop off to sleep again . At about nine o'clock we reached `` Boomerang stream , '' the same place where we had witnessed the natives of Australia gorge themselves with kangaroo meat until stuffed to repletion . The place was alive with oxen and stockmen , and carts filled with stores on their way to the mines . Many of the drivers had just arrived , having been on the road from Melbourne all night , and were turning their cattle loose , intending to pass the day by the side of the stream , for the purpose of recruiting , and avoiding the heat of the noonday sun . We forded the river , the waters of which were not more than twelve inches deep , and with many flourishes of his immense whip , Smith drew up his cattle directly under the shade of a friendly tree growing near the bank .