about five o’clock in the evening
Besides , they are not very dangerous ; and the Africans bathe with impunity , and quite fearless of their attacks . '' Kennedy made no reply . He preferred keeping quiet to discussing this terrible possibility . The doctor made out the town of Lari about five o'clock in the evening . The inhabitants were at work gathering in their cotton-crop in front of their huts , constructed of woven reeds , and standing in the midst of clean and neatly-kept enclosures . This collection of about fifty habitations occupied a slight depression of the soil , in a valley extending between two low mountains . The force of the wind carried the doctor farther onward than he wanted to go ; but it changed a second time , and bore him back exactly to his starting-point , on the sort of enclosed island where he had passed the preceding night .