six o'clock in the evening
A special correspondent who is not precise is a geometer who neglects to run out his calculations to the tenth decimal . This delay of three minutes made the German our traveling companion . I have an idea that this good man will furnish me with some copy , but it is only a presentiment . It is still daylight at six o'clock in the evening in this latitude . I have bought a time-table and I consult it . The map which accompanies it shows me station by station the course of the line between Tiflis and Baku . Not to know the direction taken by the engine , to be ignorant if the train is going northeast or southeast , would be insupportable to me , all the more as when night comes , I shall see nothing , for I can not see in the dark as if I were an owl or a cat .