CHAPTER XXIX.

CORAL ISLANDS AND CORAL.

 

 

 

 

 

HE voyage
before the
Antelope was not

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

to be a short one.
Uncle Nat said,
“We are going
to Australia, but
New Zealand is
the land first to
be visited.”

Day after day

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

they sailed in a

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

south-easterly di-

 

rection, passing

 

 

island after island

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that gemmed the
Pacific. Some-
times they came
quite near some

 

coast of green
swelling out of

the water, only to subside again, and then melt like a gem of
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