six in the evening
Believe the geographers after that ! '' `` Let us wait , Joe ! we shall see by-and-by . '' About half-past six in the evening the Victoria was directly opposite Mount Duthumi ; in order to pass , it had to ascend to a height of more than three thousand feet , and to accomplish that the doctor had only to raise the temperature of his gas eighteen degrees . It might have been correctly said that he held his balloon in his hand . Kennedy had only to indicate to him the obstacles to be surmounted , and the Victoria sped through the air , skimming the summits of the range . At eight o'clock it descended the farther slope , the acclivity of which was much less abrupt .