about midnight
According to him every rock we passed had its history of jinn and spirits as well as battles , and he knew where the tomb was of every national saint and hero , every one of whom had apparently died within a radius of twenty miles . Some of them had died in two or three different places as far as I could make out from his account of them . And what Abraham had not done on those hillsides in the way of miracles and war would not be worth writing in a book ; whatever can not be otherwise explained is set down to the Ancestor , the Arabs ranking Abraham next after Mohammed , because the patriarch built the Kaaba , or Mosque , at Mecca , that Mohammed centuries later on adopted for his new religion . But even Ali Baba grew tired of acting historian at last , and once more silence settled down , broken only by the bells and the camels ' gurgling , until about midnight we overhauled the three men who had been sent in chase of the fellow on the Bishareen . They had lost him , and were angry ; for what should a man do except be angry in such a circumstance , unless he is willing to accept blame ? `` You should have let us shoot , Jimgrim ! Once I got close enough to have cut his beast 's legs with my sword !