noon
So light was the wind that the shore went by slowly . There gathered an impatience . `` If we must to Jamaica , what use in following every curve of Hispaniola that is forbid us ? '' At noon the wind almost wholly failed , then after three hours of this rose with a pouncing suddenness to a good breeze . We rounded a point thronged with palms . Before us a similar point , and between the two that bent gently each to the other , slept a deep and narrow bight . `` Enter here , '' said the Admiral .