five o’clock in the evening
The jangada was moored to the bank with solid cables , so that it could not be carried away by the current when it floated off . Quite a tribe from one hundred and fifty to two hundred Indians , without counting the population of the village , had come to assist at the interesting spectacle . They were all keenly on the watch , and silence reigned over the impressionable crowd . Toward five o'clock in the evening the water had reached a level higher than that of the night before -- by more than a foot -- and the bank had already entirely disappeared beneath the liquid covering . A certain groaning arose among the planks of the enormous structure , but there was still wanting a few inches before it was quite lifted and detached from the ground . For an hour the groanings increased . The joists grated on all sides .