eleven o’clock
Yaquita and her party were received by the commandant of the fort , a poor fellow who , however , knew the laws of hospitality , and offered them some breakfast in his cottage . Here and there passed and repassed several soldiers on guard , while on the threshold of the barrack appeared a few children , with their mothers of Ticuna blood , affording very poor specimens of the mixed race . In place of accepting the breakfast of the sergeant , Yaquita invited the commandant and his wife to come and have theirs on board the jangada . The commandant did not wait for a second invitation , and an appointment was made for eleven o'clock . In the meantime Yaquita , her daughter , and the young mulatto , accompanied by Manoel , went for a walk in the neighborhood , leaving Benito to settle with the commandant about the tolls -- he being chief of the custom-house as well as of the military establishment . That done , Benito , as was his wont , strolled off with his gun into the adjoining woods . On this occasion Manoel had declined to accompany him .