a few minutes after four o'clock
Then , too , at supper-time the unexpected had happened . Bennett , moved no doubt by their weakened condition , had dealt out extra rations to each man : one and two-thirds ounces of butter and six and two-thirds ounces of aleuronate bread -- a veritable luxury after the unvarying diet of pemmican , lime juice , and dried potatoes of the past fortnight . The men had got into their sleeping-bags early , and until four o'clock in the morning had slept profoundly , inert , stupefied , almost without movement . But a few minutes after four o'clock Bennett awoke . He was usually up about half an hour before the others . On the day before he had been able to get a meridian altitude of the sun , and was anxious to complete his calculations as to the expedition 's position on the chart that he had begun in the evening . He pushed back the flap of the sleeping-bag and rose to his full height , passing his hands over his face , rubbing the sleep from his eyes .