about one in the afternoon
The rain of stones not being resumed with daylight , we left his body in the cave , and pushed on over the snow in sad and sorry condition : for our provisions now began to run short . Obed assumed the lead , with the consent of all . Once or twice in the course of the morning I observed him to pause , as if listening . The cause of this became apparent at about one in the afternoon , when I , too , heard the sound of running water : and an hour later we halted on the edge of a broad valley , with a swift stream running through it , black between banks of snow , and on the near bank a few huts and a crowd of three hundred Indians at least . They had already caught sight of us : so we judged it better to advance , after looking to our arms . We were met by a toen -LRB- the same that had cut up the pork -RRB- and a chief of taller stature and pleasanter features than we had hitherto happened on in the country . It now appeared that the previous silence of these people had been deliberate : for the toen at once began to talk in a language fairly intelligible to Obed .