twelve o'clock
Besides , this carcass is a mass of ice now . -- It is very cold . '' `` Yes , and dark enough for anything . '' But as the days -- they could hardly be called days -- glided by the last gleams of a dim twilight died out , till in the clearest times there was nothing but a faint dawn to be seen at twelve o'clock , where they had seen the rim of the sun for the last time , and the cold was intense , beyond anything they could have imagined . When the men were crowded together in the forecastle their breath rose in a thick mist , and Watty murmured bitterly to Steve about it , for he said it was a shame that the deck was not freshly cleaned . `` A ' through snaw-storm last neet , '' he said , `` the snaw came tumm ` ling doon upo ' our bets till she was a ' wet . '' `` But there was no snowstorm last night , Watty . ''