one o'clock
And yet , let me tell you , Africa is a very queer country -- as you will discover if you persist in attempting to carry out your plan -- and queer things happen in it , things that strain a man 's credulity to the breaking-point , until he has had personal experience of them . That remark of Shakespeare 's , that ` there are more things in heaven and earth than are reckoned in our philosophy ' is nowhere more forcefully confirmed than in this continent of Africa , and especially in those parts of it which are practically unknown to the white man . Why , even here , close at hand , among our neighbours the Zulus , there have been happenings -- well authenticated , mind you -- that are absolutely unexplainable by any knowledge that we whites possess . But I think I have prosed enough for one sitting , and it is growing late -- one o'clock , as I am a living sinner ! -- and you must be growing tired . Do you wonder why I have told you all these things ? Well , it is because I should like to dissuade you from this mad scheme of yours , which my experience tells me can only end in disaster , and induce you to content yourselves with a two-months ' hunting trip in the company of some good man who knows the country , and can be trusted to see that you come to no harm .