about noon
Poor slut ! I shall remember thee to my dying day . ' Well , the boat now conveyed us all safe to shore , where we landed with very little difficulty . It was now about noon , and the rays of the sun , which descended almost perpendicular on our heads , were extremely hot and troublesome . However , we travelled through this extreme heat about five miles over a plain . This brought us to a vast wood , which extended itself as far as we could see , both to the right and left , and seemed to me to put an entire end to our progress . Here we decreed to rest and dine on the provision which we had brought from the ship , of which we had sufficient for very few meals ; our boat being so overloaded with people that we had very little room for luggage of any kind .