noon
`` I have been hungry more than an hour , but you were so absorbed in your discoveries you would not listen to my hints . I should like to go to that little knoll , in which those four cocoa-nut trees stand , we shall have a little air then , and can see any danger all round , and , perchance find a cocoa-nut . '' `` Which you may have all to yourself , June , for I think them unwholesome things . '' After a dinner and a successful nutting , I proposed a siesta , as it was impossible to move during the sultry noon , which Schillie agreed to provided I went to sleep first , whilst she watched for an hour , then she was to waken me , and I was to watch in my turn . After a profound sleep of some duration I awoke , and found my guard in a helpless state of somnambulism , which was so very deep I did not like to disturb her ; neither could I move , as the better to guard me she was lying half over me , I , therefore , though anxious about the time we had been sleeping , decided to sit still and wait until she showed some signs of waking . She had the watch round her neck , and I could not look at it without disturbing her , so I amused myself with watching the curious and strange things around me . I noticed some black things in the water , which came nearer and nearer , and I gave a start of pleasure when I perceived that they must be turtle ; at last one landed and crawled in the most extraordinary manner some way up the sands .