Then looking at his watch, he cried, "What are you thinking of, Ben Zoof?
It is scarcely two o'clock." "Two in the morning, or two in the afternoon ?" asked Ben Zoof, again regarding the sun.
Servadac raised his watch to his ear.

"It is going," said he; "but, by all the wines of Medoc, I am puzzled.

Don't you see the sun is in the west?
It must be near setting." "Setting, captain! Why, it is rising finely, like a conscript at the sound of the reveille.

It is considerably higher since we have been talking." Incredible as it might appear, the fact was undeniable that the sun was rising over the Shelif from that quarter of the horizon behind which it usually sank for the latter portion of its daily round.

They were utterly bewildered.