noon
The growths of successive years had overlaid each other . Kingozi called two men with _ pangas _ who speedily cut out the centre , leaving a little round green room in the heart of the shadow . Thither Kingozi caused to be conveyed his chop-box table , his canvas chair , and his tin box ; and there he spent the entire morning writing in a blank book and carefully drawing from field notes in a pocketbook a sketch map of the country he had traversed . At noon he ate a light meal of bread , plain rice with sugar , and a _ balauri _ of tea . Then for a time he slept beneath the mosquito bar in his tent . At this hour of fiercest sun the whole world slept with him . From the baked earth rose heat waves almost as tangible as gauze veils .