five o'clock
Nevertheless , Garth , occupied as he was with the problems of how to find a dry place to put up the tent , and how to build a fire in a downpour , was anxious . Little by little the showers merged into each other ; and before the end of the afternoon , it had settled down to rain steadily all night . He learned in the end never to trust the distances given in an unmeasured land . Rounding one of the endless bends toward five o'clock , they became aware of a new , indefinable , fresher smell on the air ; and they increased their pace with an eager sense of a discovery awaiting them in the next vista . The next point proved to be the last ; looking around it , the wind buffeted their faces fresh and cool ; the river stretched away for half a mile , straight as a canal and there , away beyond , leapt the waves of Caribou Lake on the bar . Natalie cheered . `` Hooray for the crew of the _ Flat-iron _ ! ''