About ten o’clock in the morning
`` That beats sulphate of quinine ! '' said the energetic Scot , with hearty emphasis and much satisfaction . `` Positively , '' said Joe , `` this is where I 'll have to retire to when I get old ! '' About ten o'clock in the morning the atmosphere cleared up , the clouds parted , and the country beneath could again be seen , the Victoria meanwhile rapidly descending . Dr. Ferguson was in search of a current that would carry him more to the northeast , and he found it about six hundred feet from the ground . The country was becoming more broken , and even mountainous . The Zungomoro district was fading out of sight in the east with the last cocoa-nut-trees of that latitude .