About ten
o'clock
-- Tartarin Sets off to Lion-Land _ Then the great day of his departure arrived . All the town was agog . The neighbourhood of Baobab Villa was crammed with spectators . About ten o'clock the bold hero issued forth . `` He 's a Turk ! He 's wearing spectacles ! '' This was the astonished cry of the beholders , and , sure enough , Tartarin had thought it his duty to don Algerian costume because he was going to Algeria .