six o'clock
He slept like a dead man . The brief darkness around midnight came and went . The sun arose in the northeast -- at least the day dawned in that quarter , for the sun was hidden by gray clouds . At six o'clock he awoke , quietly lying on his back . He gazed straight up into the gray sky and knew that he was hungry . As he rolled over on his elbow he was startled by a loud snort , and saw a bull caribou regarding him with alert curiosity . The animal was not mere than fifty feet away , and instantly into the man 's mind leaped the vision and the savor of a caribou steak sizzling and frying over a fire .