nine in the morning
While travelling through the wilds of North America in boats , voyageurs always make a point of landing to breakfast . Dinner is a meal with which they are unacquainted , at least on the voyage , and luncheon is likewise unknown . If a man feels hungry during the day , the pemmican-bag and its contents are there ; he may pause in his work at any time , for a minute , to seize the axe and cut off a lump , which he may devour as he best can ; but there is no going ashore -- no resting for dinner . Two great meals are recognised , and the time allotted to their preparation and consumption held inviolable -- breakfast and supper : the first varying between the hours of seven and nine in the morning ; the second about sunset , at which time travellers usually encamp for the night . Of the two meals it would be difficult to say which is more agreeable . For our own part , we prefer the former . It is the meal to which a man addresses himself with peculiar gusto , especially if he has been astir three or four hours previously in the open air .