about four o'clock
Gently she laid her hand on his bowed head . Thus they waited , while the safari , evidently under local guidance , plunged into some hidden path through the papyrus , and so disappeared . Let us now follow Simba , Mali-ya-bwana , and their six men and the two strange _ shenzis _ who were to act as guides . They started off across the veldt at about four o'clock of the afternoon and travelled rapidly until dark . The gait they took was not a run , but it got them over the ground at four and a half to five miles an hour . Shortly after sundown they stopped for an hour , ate , drank , and lay flat on their backs . Then they arose , lighted a candle end in the mica lantern , and resumed their journey .