five
o'clock
About three o'clock in the afternoon I struck this path , or rather track , at a point ten or twelve miles away from the Temple , and there , just mounting a rise , met the two horses quietly walking towards me . Had I been a quarter of an hour later they would have passed and vanished into a sea of thorn-veld . We caught them without trouble and once more headed homewards , leading them by their riems . Reaching the glade where the other two were tied up , we collected them also and returned to the house , where we arrived at five o'clock . As everything seemed quiet I put my mare into the stable , slipped its bit and gave it some forage . Then I went round the house , and to my great joy found Anscombe and Heda waiting anxiously , but with nothing to report , and with them Footsack . Very hastily I swallowed some food , while Footsack inspanned the horses .