midday
`` I am willing to try it , if you are , '' replied White , and by daylight of the following morning the impatient lads were on their way up the coast in search of the ice bridge to Newfoundland . Cabot had traded his electric flashlight for a supply of provisions sufficient to load his sled , which they took turns at hauling , and four days after leaving Battle Harbour they reached L'Anse au Loup . At that point the strait is only a dozen miles wide , and there , if anywhere , they could cross it . It was midday when they came to the winter huts of L'Anse au Loup , and they had intended remaining in one of them over night , but a short conversation with its owner caused them to change their plans . `` Yas , there be solid pack clear to ither side all right , '' he said , `` but happen it 'll go out any time . Fust change o ' wind 'll loose it , and one 's to be looked for . Ah would n't resk it on no account mahself , but if Ah had it to do , Ah 'd go in a hurry ` ithout wasting no time . ''