midday
It was haunted by wild nightmares . No sooner had I closed my eyes than I began to live and move in a fantastic world . The whole bush of the plains lay before me , and I watched it as if from some view-point in the clouds . It was midday , and the sandy patches shimmered under a haze of heat . I saw odd little movements in the bush -- a buck 's head raised , a paauw stalking solemnly in the long grass , a big crocodile rolling off a mudbank in the river . And then I saw quite clearly Laputa 's figure going east . In my sleep I did not think about Arcoll 's manoeuvres .