about one o'clock in the morning
He had a thorn half an inch long in his foot , which Adams extracted . Then the camp went to bed . Adams in his tent under the mosquito net slept soundly and heard and knew nothing of the incidents of the night . Berselius was also sleeping soundly when , at about one o'clock in the morning , Félix aroused him . One of the porters had been caught stealing some of the meat left over from the distribution of the night before . The extraordinary thing was that he had fed well , not being one of the proscribed . He had stolen from pure greed .