about two o'clock
`` I 'll take Kaipi and go north , you take Maru and go in the opposite direction . If you find the trail , camp near it and send Maru on the run back to us . I 'll do the same if I strike the spoor of the big devil . '' It was about two o'clock , as nearly as we could judge , when we separated . We agreed to keep as close as possible to the rocky wall so that a messenger from one would have less difficulty in locating the other , and Maru and I found , before we had gone a hundred yards , that the nearer we could get to the cliff the quicker we could get along . The lianas found it difficult to get a grip upon the rocks , and we could worm our way without much trouble . We had travelled about three quarters of a mile when the native dropped upon his knees and I immediately followed his example .