nine o’clock
However , at last we retired to our beds ; and next morning , when I awoke , there was the small stream once more trickling over the face of the rock , with the slight spray wafting into my bedroom , a little discoloured certainly , but as quietly as if no storm had taken place . We were kept at Don Picador 's for three days , as , from the shooting of the soil from the opposite hill , the river had been dammed up , and its channel altered , so that there was no venturing across . Three Negroes were unfortunately drowned , when the bank shot , as Bang called it . But the wonder passed away ; and by nine o'clock on the fourth morning , when we mounted our mules to proceed , there was little apparently on the fair face of nature to mark that such fearful scenes had been . However , when we did get under weigh , we found that the hurricane had not passed over us without leaving fearful evidences of its violence . We had breakfasted -- the women had wept -- Don Ricardo had blown his nose -- Aaron Bang had blundered and fidgeted about and the bestias were at the door . We embraced the ladies .