ten o’clock
Such trials would have crushed the spirits of any but the bravest , and with a less resolute leader than Sam , despair would have made the others indifferent to their surroundings . While it was yet as dark as midnight in the cañon , they could look up and see pink streaks in the far-off sky that told them the light of another day was again flushing the upper world . But the sun only looked into this gloomy abyss for one short hour in the twenty-four , and then left it to the gathering shadows and impenetrable night . It was ten o'clock by Sam 's watch when they found a ledge of rocks on which they could make a landing . This haven was discovered none too soon , for the severe straining the raft had had in the whirlpool had loosened the cords that held the logs and they threatened to come apart and let all into the water . The remaining food was very much soaked , but their appetites were keen enough to eat the whole of it just as it was . Two more days would see all of their provisions gone , and , realizing this fact , Sam proposed dividing what was left so as to last over three days , but against this arrangement Ike and Wall Shin entered a protest .