10:05
All this time , the strange , yellowish sheen against the heavens was increasing . What might lie beyond the mountains -- who could tell ? But that its nature was wholly different from anything any white man ever had beheld seemed obvious . Quite suddenly , at 10:05 , the Master 's binoculars detected a break far to southward , in the craggy wall of rock . He ordered _ Nissr 's _ beak turned directly thither . Swiftly the Eagle of the Sky held her course , speeding like an arrow . And now a vast , open plain was seen to be spreading away , away to indeterminable distances ; a plain the further limits of which veiled themselves in bister and dull ocher vapors .