about eight o’clock
` The chief sent us greeting , ' he said , ` and would see us on the morrow . ' Meanwhile he was ordered to bring us to a place of resting , where we and our goods should be safe and undisturbed . Accordingly he led the way to some very good huts just outside Nala 's private enclosure , and here we slept comfortably . `` On the morrow about eight o'clock the head man came again , and said that Nala requested that I would visit him . I followed him into the private enclosure and was introduced to the chief , a fine-looking man of about fifty , with very delicately-shaped hands and feet , and a rather nervous mouth . The chief was seated on a tanned ox-hide outside his hut . By his side stood his daughter Maiwa , and squatted on their haunches round him were some twenty head men or Indunas , whose number was continually added to by fresh arrivals .