eight o'clock
The sun was bright and the sky cloudless . It was an ideal day for out-of-door `` shots , '' and the camera men and Mr. Hooley had the whole company astir betimes . The few real Indians , besides Wonota and Totantora , in the company , and all those `` extras '' who were dressed as aborigines , got into their costumes before breakfast . Soon after eight o'clock the company got away in barges , with launches to tow them through the quiet waterways . In a costume play like this that had been planned , the participants naturally make a very brilliant spectacle wherever they appear . But among the islands of Chippewa Bay there were few spectators at this time save the wild fowl . `` And they , '' Helen said , `` might be descendants of the very birds who looked on the actual first appearance of the white man in this wilderness .