six in the morning
It goes , I think , at eight . '' `` I am sure to catch a train , soon , for orders have been sent down that railway materials shall be sent up , as quickly as possible ; as it has been decided that the railway shall be carried on , at once , to Khartoum . I expect that , as soon as the Nile falls , they will make a temporary bridge across the Atbara . '' It was six in the morning , when the steamer arrived at Abu Hamed . Gregory at once landed , paid his four men , went up to the little station ; and , an hour later , was on his way to Atbara Fort . He had but two hours to wait there , and reached Omdurman at three o'clock , on the following afternoon . As he landed , he met an officer he knew .