noon
Once during the night he awoke and arose to replenish the fire . The stars were looking down upon them , cold and distant , and the wilderness seemed very solemn and quiet when he resumed his place amongst the sleeping Indians . They were on their way again by moonlight the following morning . Shortly after daybreak they turned out of the river bed and towards noon came upon some snow-shoe tracks . A little later they passed a steel trap , in which a white arctic fox straggled for freedom . They halted a moment for Sishetakushin to press his knee upon its side to kill it and then went on . The fox he left in the trap , however , for the hunter to whom it belonged .