noon
Luckily the attentions paid to the new arrival stretched over a long period of time , otherwise the boys would certainly have been retaken . Disturbed by the noise made by the lads in pushing through the jungle , the monkeys , birds , and other creatures of the forest lifted up their voices and seemed to point out the path of flight . Jimmie declared that a brass band could have done no more to locate them . It was after noon when they came to the little bay where they had left the _ Manhattan _ . There was the bay , shimmering in the sun , there was the beach where they had landed . But where was the motor boat ? `` They 've had to run for it , '' Jimmie decided , gazing gloomily over the waste of sea and back to the jungle .