noon
Nevertheless , the little band held together and arrived in the fringe of hills fit and comparatively fresh . Here they encountered people belonging to M'tela 's tribes ; but their guides seemed to vouch for them , and they passed without trouble . Indeed they were here enabled to get more food , and to waste no time hunting . At noon of another day , surmounting a ridge , they looked down on a marching safari . The two _ shenzi _ guides pointed and grinned , much pleased with themselves . Their pleasure was short lived ; for they were promptly seized , disarmed , and tied together . The grieved astonishment of their expressions almost immediately faded into fatalistic stolidity .