The _Eagle_ continued on her way south, the climate getting warmer and warmer as they approached the equator.

Bob meanwhile had learned much about the ship and the manner of sailing it.

He got the names of the various ropes and sails by heart, and it would have taken a pretty ingenious sailor to have sent him on a foolish errand now after some part of the ship's gear.

Captain Spark was encouraged by Bob's behavior, and began to think the voyage was doing the lad good.

So it was, but the cure was not complete, as you shall see.
Mr.Tarbill resented Bob's joke, and had not spoken to the boy since the "whale" incident.