six o'clock in the evening
He not only would not have understood them , but would have been intensely disgusted . His only idea was to go ahead . He walked , he slid , he clambered over piles of fragments , he rolled down heaps of broken lava , with an earnestness and conviction it was impossible not to admire . At six o'clock in the evening , after a very wearisome journey , but one not so fatiguing as before , we had made six miles towards the southward , but had not gone more than a mile downwards . My uncle , as usual , gave the signal to halt . We ate our meal in thoughtful silence , and then retired to sleep . Our arrangements for the night were very primitive and simple .