one o'clock
Bennett called a halt . Hot tea was made , and pemmican and hardtack served out . `` We 'll have easier hauling this afternoon , men , '' said Bennett ; `` this next ridge is the worst of the lot ; beyond that Mr. Ferriss says we 've got nearly a quarter of a mile of level floes . '' On again at one o'clock ; but the hummock of which Bennett had spoken proved absolutely impassable for the loaded sledges . It was all one that the men lay to the ropes like draught-horses , and that Muck Tu flogged the dogs till the goad broke in his hands . The men lost their footing upon the slippery ice and fell to their knees ; the dogs laid down in the traces groaning and whining . The sledge would not move .