about four o'clock
Except the few families living round Blaauwildebeestefontein one never saw a native on the roads , and none came into the store . They were sticking close to their locations , or else they had gone after some distant business . Except a batch of three Shangaans returning from the Rand , I had nobody in the store for the whole of one day . So about four o'clock I shut it up , whistled on Colin , and went for a walk along the Berg . If there were no natives on the road , there were plenty in the bush . I had the impression , of which Wardlaw had spoken , that the native population of the countryside had suddenly been hugely increased . The woods were simply _ hotching _ with them .