about ten o’clock
Beside the Hottentot Klaus , my companions on this unwelcome journey were three of the Zulu Kaffirs , for Hans I was obliged to leave in charge of my cattle and goods with the other men . Also , I took a pack-ox , an active beast that I had been training to carry loads and , if necessary a man , although as yet it was not very well broken . All that day we marched over extremely rough country , till at last darkness found us in a mountainous kloof , where we slept , surrounded by watch-fires because of the lions . Next morning at the first light we moved on again , and about ten o'clock waded through a stream to a little natural cave , where Klaus said he had left his master . This cave seemed extremely silent , and , as I hesitated for a moment at its mouth , the thought crossed my mind that if Pereira were still there , he must be dead . Indeed , do what I would to suppress it , with that reflection came a certain feeling of relief and even of pleasure . For well I knew that Pereira alive was more dangerous to me than all the wild men and beasts in Africa put together .