About noon
`` We ought to be near the station of the commissioner of the district now . If we do n't strike it by night we may as well go back . I 've found out what we came for . '' About noon , however , they came to a long unpainted frame building with corrugated iron roof , set in the midst of a grove of small trees . At the rear were stables and a great corral of wire netting , in which grazed a herd of ostriches . As they rode up to the door one or two natives came out , and a khaki-clad Englishman with shoulder-straps rushed out to receive them . `` Hello ! ''