about eight o’clock
The outline of the mountains was wholly altered , and the Pampas guides would have sought vainly for the accustomed landmarks . A magnificent day had dawned . The sun was just rising from his ocean bed , and his bright rays streamed already over the Argentine plains , and ran across to the Atlantic . It was about eight o'clock . Lord Glenarvan and his companions were gradually restored to animation by the Major 's efforts . They had been completely stunned , but had sustained no injury whatever . The descent of the Cordilleras was accomplished ; and as Dame Nature had conveyed them at her own expense , they could only have praised her method of locomotion if one of their number , and that one the feeblest and youngest , the child of the party , had not been missing at the roll call .