noon
So we watched the sea . And also there was a man to watch the forest . But we did not conceive that the dragon would come forth in the daytime , nor that he could come at any time without our hearing afar the dragging of his body and the whistling of his breath . It was halfway between sunrise and noon . Five of us were in the village , seven at La Navidad . The five were there for melons and fruit and cassava and tobacco which we bought with beads and fishhooks and bits of bright cloth . Three of the seven at La Navidad were out of gate , down at the river , washing their clothes .