ten o'clock
Had the Basutos been any good at woodcraft we should have had better intelligence . But living in a bare mountain country they are apt to find themselves puzzled in a forest . The best men among the trackers were some renegades of ` Mpefu , who sent back word by a device known only to Arcoll that five Kaffirs were in the woods a mile north of Main Drift . By this time it was after ten o'clock , and the moon was rising . The five men separated soon after , and the reports became confused . Then Laputa , as the biggest of the five , was located on the banks of the Great Letaba about two miles below Main Drift . The question was as to his crossing .