228 CAMPS IN THE CARIBBEES. 
from one of the saddest of romances, in which the old 
servant warns Paul and Virginia of the approach of 
midnight, as indicated by the position of the cross.** 
That glorious constellation, watched by the hapless 
lovers in the far-off Mauritius, I saw gleaming above 
the Caribbean Sea, north of and nearer the equator, 
as I lay upon the beach. By a rare coincidence, it 
hung in the sky above a cathedral-shaped rock known 
to the natives as Church Island. 
* “<T11 est tard, tl est minuit ; la Croix du Sud est droite sur 
horizon.” — PAUL ET VIRGINIE. 
