eight o'clock
At times they had to wade waist deep in water . The exhausted carriers fell out by dozens , but their loads were picked up and shouldered by soldiers , and not a single one was lost . The men got what shelter they could in the huts of the village and , in spite of wet and sleeplessness , all turned out cheerfully in the morning . The start was made at eight o'clock , in order that the men might recover a little from the previous day 's fatigue . The enemy 's scouts were encountered almost on the outskirts of the village and , in a short time , the advance guard neared the village of Treda . It was a large place , with a very holy fetish tree . It stood on the top of a slope and , long before the rear guard had fallen out at Pekki , it was carried by a brilliant bayonet charge , by the Yorubas and the Sierra Leone frontier police .