But it is clear, I think, that Kilmeny must have described the same country as Durante saw, though, not having his experience, she could neither understand nor describe it so well.
Now I must give you such fragments of recollection as Diamond was able to bring back with him.
When he came to himself after he fell, he found himself at the back of the north wind.

North Wind herself was nowhere to be seen.

Neither was there a vestige of snow or of ice within sight.

The sun too had vanished; but that was no matter, for there was plenty of a certain still rayless light.

Where it came from he never found out; but he thought it belonged to the country itself.