midnight
`` What does a sailor care for the opinion of the world ? Aimata shall be my wife . '' The intense heat oppressed him . He stepped out on the cliff , toward midnight , in search of a breath of air . At that moment , the first shock of earthquake -LRB- felt in the ship while she was inside the reef -RRB- shook the ground he stood on . He instantly thought of the volcano on the main island . Had he been mistaken in supposing the crater to be extinct ?