About ten o'clock
`` I 'll soon get my French back up here , '' said Bob . `` They seem to talk pretty good French . I can understand them quite easily . '' About ten o'clock , they came into a hilly country and found evidences of mining being carried on . On Bob 's inquiring , they found that they were asbestos mines and that it was practically a new industry for this part of Canada . They also noted that many new farms were being cleared by the young Frenchmen and that much lumber was being transported both by the rivers and the railroad . The look of the people was quite foreign by this time and the boys felt that they were indeed in a foreign land .