dense foliage and the harbor.

The gravel bottom of the rivulet made fairly good

walking, and as Virginia was borne in a litter between

two powerful lascars it was not even necessary that she

wet her feet in the ascent of the stream to the camp.

The distance was short, the center of the camp being

but a mile from the harbor, and less than half a mile

from the opposite shore of the island which was but two

miles at its greatest breadth, and two and a quarter at

its greatest length.

At the camp Virginia found that a neat clearing had

been made upon a little tableland, a palisade built

about it, and divided into three parts; the most

northerly of which contained a small house for herself

and her father, another for von Horn, and a common

cooking and eating house over which Sing was to preside.

The enclosure at the far end of the palisade was for

the Malay and lascar crew and there also were quarters

for Bududreen and the Malay second mate. The center

enclosure contained Professor Maxon's workshop. This

compartment of the enclosure Virginia was not invited

to inspect, but as members of the crew carried in the

two great chests which the professor had left upon the

Ithaca until the last moment, Virginia caught a glimpse

of the two buildings that had been erected within this

central space--a small, square house which was quite

evidently her father's laboratory, and a long, low

thatched shed divided into several compartments, each

containing a rude bunk. She wondered for whom they

could be intended. Quarters for all the party had

already been arranged for elsewhere, nor, thought she,

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