eleven o'clock
This at last disappeared in turn and Norman threw the car back on its old course . Once again above the river , whose brown , oily surface now shone clearly beneath them , Roy especially busied himself with the many attractions of the stream . Animal life was plentiful and , despite Norman 's renewed protests , his companion insisted now and then in fruitlessly discharging his rifle at small game . They made better time than fifty miles and made a safe landing on the heights opposite Athabasca some time before eleven o'clock . What had seemed to them , from Athabasca , to be an uninhabited bluff , was now found to contain several poor cabins . Afraid to leave the car alone near those who would certainly be curious , Norman decided to stay with the monoplane and Roy undertook to visit the town across the river . But dinner at the Alberta was eliminated and Roy , in addition to his mail and meat and magazines , was to bring back luncheon for both the aviators .