four o’clock in the afternoon
It was impossible , moreover , to leave it , and to strike a straight line across that impassable network of pools and bogs . On the next day , the 1st of August , eighty miles farther , Michael Strogoff arrived at midday at the town of Spaskoe , and at two o'clock he halted at Pokrowskoe . His horse , jaded since his departure from Elamsk , could not have taken a single step more . There Michael Strogoff was again compelled to lose , for necessary rest , the end of that day and the entire night ; but starting again on the following morning , and still traversing the semi-inundated soil , on the 2nd of August , at four o'clock in the afternoon , after a stage of fifty miles he reached Kamsk . The country had changed . This little village of Kamsk lies , like an island , habitable and healthy , in the midst of the uninhabitable district . It is situated in the very center of the Baraba .