six o'clock in the morning
The lone sportsman has very little chance of obtaining a shot , so they are hunted in large companies of from five to fifteen guns . Such parties generally organize a hunt at least once a week and leave Singapore early in the morning for an all-day shoot . The pig hunts organized by the officers of the Royal Artillery are the largest , and as a description of one is a description of all , I will take one up in regular order , rather than quote from many . We left Singapore at six o'clock in the morning in a four-horse dray . As the sun had not reached the tops of the trees , the atmosphere was mild and pleasant . A half-hour took us outside the great cosmopolitan city , of three hundred thousand inhabitants . The low , cool bungalows with their wide-spreading lawns gave place to the grass-thatched huts of the Chinese coolies , and the omnipresent eating-stalls .