midday
On this partially packed surface followed the dogs , the man at the gee-pole , and the sled . At the best , toiling as only picked men could toil , they made no more than three miles an hour . This meant longer hours of travel , and Daylight , for good measure and for a margin against accidents , hit the trail for twelve hours a day . Since three hours were consumed by making camp at night and cooking beans , by getting breakfast in the morning and breaking camp , and by thawing beans at the midday halt , nine hours were left for sleep and recuperation , and neither men nor dogs wasted many minutes of those nine hours . At Selkirk , the trading post near Pelly River , Daylight suggested that Kama lay over , rejoining him on the back trip from Dyea . A strayed Indian from Lake Le Barge was willing to take his place ; but Kama was obdurate . He grunted with a slight intonation of resentment , and that was all .