CHAPTER XLI.

fm) one evening, “we shall see
e China.”

It was a beautiful ‘night. On
and on, across a sea of silver, sped

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the Antelope. A glorious half-moon
tang in the sky. Did it mean fair
= fv. weather ?

' fi mb bic LW. Another day came. Would it
bring them to land?

 

“China! China, boys!” Uncle Nat sang out.

«Where ?” a

“ Away, away over there, Ralph. Come here and stand behind
this mizzen mast. Keep your eye a little to the right; don’t you
see a hump of blue away beyond the sea?”

“ As if a whale had stuck his back up there ?”

“'That’s the spot.”

“And that is China?”

“The Flowery Land, and nothing else, unless I am very muck
mistaken.”

“China! China!” shouted Ralph from the quarter-deck, and
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