eight o'clock
`` Not a breath of air stirring . '' `` And the hotter it is , the worse the flies are , '' added Earl . `` I declare , they seem to bother me more than even the mosquitoes . '' Usually it cooled off toward seven or eight o'clock , even though the sun still shone well up in the sky , but this night proved as warm as the day had been , and most of the party went to sleep outdoors , unable to stand it inside of the close tents . Outside , they had to wind their heads and necks in mosquito netting and cover up their hands , to keep from being pestered to death . It was the most uncomfortable twenty-four hours they had yet put in . `` The old Harry take Alaska ! ''