two o'clock
`` There 's no one here , '' said Necia , gleefully . `` We 've beat them in ! We 've beat them in ! '' They had been walking rapidly since dawn , and , although Burrell 's watch showed two o'clock , she refused to halt for lunch , declaring that the others might arrive at any moment ; so down they went to the lower end of `` No Creek '' Lee 's location , where Burrell blazed a smooth spot on the down-stream side of a tree and wrote thereon at Necia 's dictation . When he had finished , she signed her name , and he witnessed it , then paced off four hundred and forty steps , where he squared a spruce-tree , which she marked : `` Lower centre end stake of No . I below discovery . Necia Gale , locator . ''