the sun at
midnight
So terrified were they that they could not speak , and went away in shame . '' `` Thou hast seen many things in thy time , Kala-hoi . '' `` Nay , friend . Not such things as thou hast seen -- such as the sun at midnight , of which thou hast told me , and which had any man but thou said it , I would have cried ` Liar ! ' '' Marsh laughed -- `` Yet 't is true , old Kala-hoi . I have seen the sun at midnight , many , many times . '' `` Aye .