the sun
at noon
He groans all the time . '' * * * * * It was a busy day . I made a selection of things from the medicine-chest for the acid-burned gangster ; and , finding that Murphy knew how to manipulate a hypodermic syringe , entrusted him with one . Then , too , I practised with the sextant and think I fairly caught the sun at noon and correctly worked up the observation . But this is latitude , and is comparatively easy . Longitude is more difficult . But I am reading up on it .