midnight
He tore other strips and bound them about his feet to serve for both moccasins and socks . Then he drank the pot of water , steaming hot , wound his watch , and crawled between his blankets . He slept like a dead man . The brief darkness around midnight came and went . The sun arose in the northeast -- at least the day dawned in that quarter , for the sun was hidden by gray clouds . At six o'clock he awoke , quietly lying on his back . He gazed straight up into the gray sky and knew that he was hungry .