four o'clock
Meinik found two boys , sixteen years old , who said that they would go with them and , at the hour agreed on , Stanley and Meinik started on horseback . They descended the hill to the plain at its foot and , turning to the right , rode for some ten or twelve miles ; when they struck into the road and , following this at an easy pace they came , in the course of another hour , upon the party of villagers sitting by the roadside . The sun was just rising , and they travelled for three hours without meeting anyone ; then they drew off into the wood , at a point where a small stream crossed the road and , after eating a meal , and giving a good feed to the horses , lay down to sleep till the heat of the day abated -- the natives , who were all armed with spears and swords , keeping watch by turns . At four o'clock they started again and , at ten , approached the spot where , in the depth of the wood , lay the temple . The man who knew its position declared , however , that he could not find it , at night . Stanley had no doubt that he was really afraid to go there but , as he did not wish to press them against their will , he said carelessly that it made no difference if they halted there , or close by the road , and a fire being speedily lit , they bivouacked round it . Meinik had procured the necessary dyes from a village , and Stanley was again stained , and covered with tattoo marks , as before .