four o’clock
By marrying Kalama , he had married not merely her land , but her own chief rank , and the fealty owed by the commoners to her by virtue of her genealogy was also accorded him . In addition , he possessed of himself all the natural attributes of chiefship : the gigantic stature , the fearlessness , the pride ; and the high hot temper that could brook no impudence nor insult , that could be neither bullied nor awed by any utmost magnificence of power that walked on two legs , and that could compel service of lesser humans , not by any ignoble purchase by bargaining , but by an unspoken but expected condescending of largesse . He knew his Hawaiians from the outside and the in , knew them better than themselves , their Polynesian circumlocutions , faiths , customs , and mysteries . And at seventy-one , after a morning in the saddle over the ranges that began at four o'clock , he lay under the monkey-pods in his customary and sacred siesta that no retainer dared to break , nor would dare permit any equal of the great one to break . Only to the King was such a right accorded , and , as the King had early learned , to break Hardman Pool 's siesta was to gain awake a very irritable and grumpy Hardman Pool who would talk straight from the shoulder and say unpleasant but true things that no king would care to hear . The sun blazed down . The horses stamped remotely .