PART III.

HOW THE MECHANICIAN AND THE ASTROLOGER WANDER OVER THE FOUR
QUARTERS OF THE WORLD, AND DISCOVERED A FIFTH, WITHOUT
FINDING THE CRACKATOOK NUT.

   
      
 
  
 

a
nally T was now fourteen years
HESS and five months since the
Ss astrologer and the mecha-
Meee. r nician first set out on their

wanderings through all
arts, without discovering a vestige of what they sought.
‘hey had first of all travelled through Europe; then they
visited America, next Africa, and afterwards Asia: they
even discovered a fifth part of the world, which learned
men have since called New Holland, because it was dis-
covered by two Germans! But throughout that long series
of travels, although they had seen many nuts of different
shapes and sizes, they never fell in with the Crackatook nut.

They had, however, in, alas! a vain hope, passed several