<span>Gene Kranz is the name your looking for.
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You could use the imagine statement or some statistics but with those its harder so i'd stick with the imagine statement
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It suggests the narrator is traveled without thinking of the time.
This one makes the most sense because he says "at length, I found myself" some traveled for a while. "As the shades of the evening drew on" supports that he was traveling without hinting of the time because night draws on unexpectedly.