three o’clock in the afternoon
Another flute answered . This interchange of musical phrases lasted for two or three minutes , and the Muras disappeared . Fragoso , in an exuberant moment , had tried to reply by a song in his own fashion , but Lina had clapped her hand on his mouth , and prevented his showing off his insignificant singing talents , which he was so willingly lavish of . On the 2d of August , at three o'clock in the afternoon , the raft arrived twenty leagues away from there at Lake Apoara , which is fed by the black waters of the river of the same name , and two days afterward , about five o'clock , it stopped at the entrance into Lake Coary . This lake is one of the largest which communicates with the Amazon , and it serves as a reservoir for different rivers . Five or six affluents run into it , and there are stored and mixed up , and emerge by a narrow channel into the main stream . After catching a glimpse of the hamlet of Tahua-Miri , mounted on its piles as on stilts , as a protection against inundation from the floods , which often sweep up over these low sand banks , the raft was moored for the night .