nine o'clock
After a week at his post he appreciated that until he left it and made the return journey nothing of equal interest was again likely to occur . For life in Camaguay , the capital of Amapala , proved to be one long , dreamless slumber . In the morning each of the inhabitants engaged in a struggle to get awake ; after the second breakfast he ceased struggling , and for a siesta sank into his hammock . After dinner , at nine o'clock , he was prepared to sleep in earnest , and went to bed . The official life as explained to Everett by Garland , the American consul , was equally monotonous . When President Mendoza was not in the mountains deer-hunting , or suppressing a revolution , each Sunday he invited the American minister to dine at the palace . In return His Excellency expected once a week to be invited to breakfast with the minister .