twelve o’clock
The second part of the journey would naturally be very different from the first . The rules with regard to the sledges keeping their rank need no longer be enforced , and each couple drove as it pleased them . Only short distances were traversed at a time ; halts were made at every angle of the coast , and the party often walked . Lieutenant Hobson only urged two things upon his companions not to go further than three miles from the coast , and to rally their forces twice a day , at twelve o'clock and in the evening . At night they all encamped in tents . The weather continued very fine and the temperature moderate , maintaining a mean height of 59 ° Fahrenheit above zero . Two or three times sudden snowstorms came on ; but they did not last long , and exercised no sensible influence upon the temperature .