Note 42 — Chapter XVII · [CONTINUATION OF STERN’S COMPOSITION.]

For upon a certain night when the moon was very clear, he rose from the baleh-baleh,42 softly left the house, and sought the place where Adinda had lived. This was not easy, because so many houses had fallen down; but he seemed to recognise the place by the width of the angle which some rays of light formed through the trees, at their meeting in his eye, as the sailor measures by lighthouses and the tops of mountains.