midday
It must have told Laputa what had always been in the Portugoose 's heart . Henriques , I fancy , was making for the cave in the Rooirand . Laputa , so far as I can guess at his mind , had a plan for getting over the Portuguese border , fetching a wide circuit , and joining his men at any of the concentrations between there and Amsterdam . The two were seen at midday going down the road which leads from Blaauwildebeestefontein to the Lebombo . Then they struck Arcoll 's new front , which stretched from the Letaba to the Labongo . This drove them north again , and forced them to swim the latter stream . From there to the eastern extremity of the Rooirand , which is the Portuguese frontier , the country is open and rolling , with a thin light scrub in the hollows .