I never moved for two hours, and, quiet as a redskin may be, he must have taken time to do that damage, so as I never heard a sound as loud as the falling of a leaf.

No, I reckon as he was at the very least two hours over that job.

He may have been gone four hours or a bit over, but not more; but that don't give us much of a start.

It would take him an hour and a half to get to the fort, then he would have to report to the French chap in command, and then there might be some talk before he set out with the redskins, leaving the French to follow." "It's no use thinking of mending the canoes, I suppose," James asked.
The hunter shook his head.
"It would take two or three hours to get fresh bark and mend those holes," he said, "and we haven't got as many minutes to spare.

There, now, we are off." While they had been speaking, Rogers had been holding a consultation with two or three of his most experienced followers, and they had arrived at pretty nearly the same conclusion as that of Rogers, namely, that the Indian had probably taken two or three hours in damaging the canoes and getting fairly away into the forest; but that, even if he had done so, the Iroquois would be up in the course of half an hour.
"Let each man pack his share of meat on his back," Rogers said.