four in the afternoon
He could scarcely hold it in his bruised and swollen fingers , and several times he dropped it . Once , in changing from one hand to the other , it escaped his clutch and fell in front of him , tripped him up , and threw him violently to the ground . At the far end of the portage he bought an old set of pack-straps for a dollar , and in them he swung the grip . Also , he chartered a launch to run him the six miles to the upper end of Lake Linderman , where he arrived at four in the afternoon . The _ Athenian _ was to sail from Dyea next morning at seven . Dyea was twenty-eight miles away , and between towered Chilcoot . He sat down to adjust his foot-gear for the long climb , and woke up .