About
noon
I set him the example of taking some nourishment , and prevailed on him to do the same ; and we slept upon the grass , at the foot of a tree . The next day I thought he seemed disposed to retrace his steps ; for , after having gazed a considerable time from the plain upon the church of the Shaddock Grove , with its long avenues of bamboos , he made a movement as if to return home ; but suddenly plunging into the forest , he directed his course towards the north . I guessed what was his design , and I endeavoured , but in vain , to dissuade him from it . About noon we arrived at the quarter of Golden Dust . He rushed down to the sea-shore , opposite to the spot where the Saint-Geran had been wrecked . At the sight of the isle of Amber , and its channel , when smooth as a mirror , he exclaimed , -- `` Virginia ! oh my dear Virginia ! ''