noon
It strikes me that our greatest difficulty will be to get our cattle across the morasses to firm ground . We shall have to contrive some plan for doing so . It will be no easy matter to feed so large a number as we shall be on fish and wildfowl . '' At noon the two chiefs returned to the spot where the men had left them , taking with them Boduoc and another of their followers . A few minutes after they arrived there they heard sounds approaching , and in a short time four boats similar to those they had seen , and each carrying two men in addition to those poling , made their way one after another through the bushes that nearly met across the stream . Most of the men were dressed like the two who had visited the village , but three of them were in attire somewhat similar to that of the Iceni . These were evidently the chiefs .