midday
`` But tell me , Nam-Bok , '' Koogah interrupted , for fear the tale would go no farther , `` tell me the manner of these men in finding their way across the sea when there is no land by which to steer . '' `` The sun points out the path . '' `` But how ? '' `` At midday the head man of the schooner takes a thing through which his eye looks at the sun , and then he makes the sun climb down out of the sky to the edge of the earth . '' `` Now this be evil medicine ! '' cried Opee-Kwan , aghast at the sacrilege . The men held up their hands in horror , and the women moaned .