About five o'clock
His little eyes glittered with a kind of strange light . To Stas , and particularly to Nell , who from time to time talked to him , he answered still with a gurgle , but when Kali carelessly came near him he grunted menacingly and waved his trunk so that he would have killed the boy if he had not jumped aside in time . Kali 's eyes were bloodshot , the veins in his neck were inflated , and his lips cracked the same as the other negroes . About five o'clock he approached Stas and , in a hollow voice which with difficulty issued out of his throat , said : `` Great master , Kali can go no further . Let the night come here . '' Stas overcame the pain in his jaws and answered with an effort : `` Very well . We will stop .