This piece of wood was pegged very firmly to the keel; and we now launched our boat with the satisfaction of knowing that when the false keel should be scraped off we could easily put on another; whereas, should the real keel have been scraped away, we could not have renewed it without taking our boat to pieces, which Peterkin said made his "marrow quake to think upon." The mast and sail answered excellently; and we now sailed about in the lagoon with great delight, and examined with much interest the appearance of our island from a distance.

Also, we gazed into the depths of the water, and watched for hours the gambols of the curious and bright-coloured fish among the corals and sea-weed.

Peterkin also made a fishing line, and Jack constructed a number of hooks, some of which were very good, others remarkably bad.

Some of these hooks were made of iron- wood, which did pretty well, the wood being extremely hard, and Jack made them very thick and large.

Fish there are not particular.