four o'clock in the morning
At four o'clock in the morning everybody in the tent was still asleep , exhausted by the terrible march of the previous day . The hummocky ice and pressure-ridges that Bennett had foreseen had at last been met with , and , though camp had been broken at six o'clock and though men and dogs had hauled and tugged and wrestled with the heavy sledges until five o'clock in the afternoon , only a mile and a half had been covered . But though the progress was slow , it was yet progress . It was not the harrowing , heart-breaking immobility of those long months aboard the Freja .