about midday
`` I will remember , '' said Seti , signing to the charioteer to drive on . Yet still the Prince lingered in the town , saying that he feared nothing and would learn all he could of this people and their ways that he might report the better of them to Pharaoh . For my part I believed that there was one face which he wished to see again before he left , but of this I thought it wise to say nothing . At length about midday we did depart , and drove eastwards on the track of Amenmeses and our company . All the afternoon we drove thus , preceded by the two soldiers disguised as runners and followed , as a distant cloud of dust told me , by the captain and his chariots , whom I had secretly commanded to keep us in sight . Towards evening we came to the pass in the story hills which bounded the land of Goshen . Here Seti descended from the chariot , and we climbed , accompanied by the two soldiers whom I signed to follow us , to the crest of one of these hills that was strewn with huge boulders and lined with ridges of sandstone , between which gullies had been cut by the winds of thousands of years .